Category: Georgia

At 7am it was 38 degrees outside the tent, a chill we haven’t felt since somewhere in the mountains of New Zealand. This southern Georgia coast was the same temperature as our home towns of Chicago and Skaneateles, NY, surely a rare instance of equality. We were heading to a 3pm check-in motel tonight, so…

Yesterday we were running the A/C in our motel room, and this morning I needed to turn on the heat. A blast of cold autumn air has finally made it to the southeast. Even though we left our room well after sunrise, we rode for at least an hour with the thermometer stuck at 50℉.…

Rett rolled over onto me as I slept, I assumed because she was just looking for some snuggles, but no, she was waking me up. Because it was after 7am! I’m almost always awake before her, and also before any alarm we might set, but this morning I had been dead asleep, and my (lack…

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…

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…