Category: USA

Day 4 After two long days in the parks, where standing in lines for hours on end is tougher on our backs than riding a bike all day, it was time for a day off. For dinner, we went to the Hoop-De-Doo Revue, an intentionally-cheesy dinner theater at the campground. Because it’s Disney, the performers…

Despite Walt Disney’s interest in innovative transportation and planned communities, the roads through his World in 2025 have been designed solely to move vehicular traffic between the four parks and dozens of resorts as efficiently as possible. So our route to get us into the center of The Most Magical Place on Earth surprisingly required…

The mild headwinds of the last couple days accelerated into an actual progress-slowing force this morning. For the first 15 miles out of Lakeland we were pushing hard as the chilly blasts sliced through us, especially in sections where the curving route turned straight into them, or the broad road corridor opened up where the…

It was 40℉ when we woke up, and probably had dipped as low as 37, so we have clearly escaped our 72℉ mornings of the Florida Keys. I took a morning stroll around the campground (at least three of the sites at the fully-booked campground appeared to be unoccupied), and was transported to a different…

Our first ride of 2025 had us continuing our northward turn that we’d started just before the holidays. The December winds that had largely pushed us on our way south had not magically turned around for us in January, so we were facing into them whether we turned north or east. They weren’t too strong,…