It’s quite incredible to us native northerners to escape the arms of winter, especially on a bicycle. 80 degrees and sunny can become pretty easy living after awhile. Thanks to Carol, Theresa and Greg for making the trip down and hanging out for awhile. We had a great time! So many amazing meals! Here are [...]
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The ride on Friday, Jan 6th to lake Okeechobee turned out to be quite a day. The morning was filled with quiet roads, early morning light and plenty of birds. Our ride took us onto Route 60, a busy truck route heading east. Due to this part of Florida having wet and swampy areas, there [...]
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On New Year’s day we left St. Petersburg and we found ourselves again riding the Pinellas Trail, this time north. This was the same trail that brought us in to the city two weeks prior. The ride is completely different in the opposite direction. This trail is well used, maintained, signed and accessible. On our [...]
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It’s Monday morning and we’re headed out of Immokalee towards Big Cypress National Preserve, the Everglades, and beyond. We have wonderful family flying down to meet us in Key West in the end of the week. We will update the blog with our Central and Southern Florida travels from our cushy spot in the Keys. [...]
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Happy New Year everyone! Well, after an extended holiday break in St. Petersburg, FL we will be getting back on the bikes tomorrow for a 700 mile meander through central and southern Florida. We are excited to meet up with family down in the Keys and to continue soaking up the warm winter weather. St. [...]
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Warm wishes for everyone as they gather together to celebrate the season. Here’s a few photos we’ve collected along the way this time that we’ve saved to share for the holidays. Take care everyone with special wishes to our friends and family-we miss you all! Debi and Bryan
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We’ve been resting for the last week in downtown St. Petersburg. It’s Christmas eve morning and we’re at a Starbucks having some strong coffee and getting caught up on the blog. We last left off leaving St. Augustine. On Friday December 9th we pedaled a short distance to Moses Creek Conservation Area, a part of [...]
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We dropped off the rental car on Monday morning December 5th. In the bright Florida sunshine we gathered our gear and pedaled out of the Jacksonville airport. It felt kind of like magic that we were suddenly pedaling in Florida, we’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The roads had decent shoulders and [...]
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We decided to take a little detour from the biking and let most of South Carolina and all of Georgia fade in the rear view mirror. We rented a car on Sunday December 4th and drove about 300 miles south to avoid some grueling biking on narrow, dog infested, heavy trafficked roads. This was an [...]
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We left our campsite in Rodanthe, NC on the morning of Tuesday November 22 and beelined our bicycles to Avon. Debi’s bike has been in need of some drive train work and the local bike shop we called was ready to help, we just had to get there before they closed. On our way we [...]
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