Category: Bike Tour
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Savannah, GA to Richmond Hill, GA
Savannah Day 4 We’d initially only booked three nights in Savannah, but 1) Rett’s love of the city, 2) one of those days (happily!) “burned” with marathon spectating, 3) the space in our calendar leading to Thanksgiving in St. Augustine, 4) the availability of our room, and 5) the cleaning-fee math that makes additional nights…
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Savannah, GA
Day 2 Marathon Day! It was a unique feeling to wake up, take some coffee to the front porch of the Queen Anne mansion, and find the normally-busy street in front of us completely quiet and empty. It had been barricaded from traffic, hours before even the leaders would arrive to mile 24.6. I love…
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Point South, SC to Savannah, GA
Our motel combined two of Choice Hotels’ brands literally under one roof. We had paid $52 (plus tax) for our “Econo Lodge” room, while fancier people paid $73 (plus tax) for a “Quality Inn” room. The guy hadn’t said anything about the big breakfast room behind me when checking in, and comparing the “amenities” lists…
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Jacksonboro, SC to Point South, SC
Before we left, the Edisto Motel served us a final example of why it’s a special place. Nathan and Taryn(?) were in front of their room a couple doors down from us, and it turned out they were fellow travelers with whom we had quite a bit in common. They had been walking (for Jesus),…
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Charleston, SC to Jacksonboro, SC
Our AirBNB was on the street that becomes the bridge that crosses the Ashley River that takes us out of Charleston. So that was unfortunately easy, especially since the bridge connecting the peninsula to the west is flat, unlike the huge climb that connects the peninsula to the east. Immediately we noticed lines of backed-up…