Category: Bike Tour

As expected, it felt a shame to leave the State Park campground, with morning on the Ochlockonee River just as still and peaceful as the evening had been. Well, the squirrels were neither still nor peaceful; they were twice as frantic and feinting as they were yesterday afternoon, though we didn’t need to take up…

At the end of yesterday’s miles of emptiness, it was a surprise to see a couple of cyclists riding the other way. Then at the country bar, a couple of muscled and sweaty college guys showed up on their hybrid bikes. This sudden appearance of our two-wheeled brethren was likely facilitated by a trail that…

The last couple days have taken us through the very-unpopulated Big Bend corner of Florida, but today we achieved a new level of East Coast emptiness. Once we got through Perry in our first four miles, and passed Rocky’s Campground four miles after that, it was 20 miles until the next building (JR’s Aucilla River…

Mornings for the last week have been wet with condensation, but today was the first day when that condensation remained visible in the air. Actually through breakfast everything was clear and sunny (and the bikes stayed dry under the cover of the pavilion!) But then something crazy began happening, first strong gusty winds blowing our…

We’d come 5 miles off course partly because Manatee Springs State Park is where there was a campground, but also because the State Park surrounds Manatee Spring, a “first magnitude” Florida spring (meaning it gushes 100 million gallons of water per day!), where manatees take refuge from the cold just like they do at Crystal…