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    We're Bryan and Debra Waters and we are migrating south on our Surly Long Haul Truckers! 2 years ago we sold our stuff, resigned from our jobs, and got on our bicycles in Vermont and headed south to Mexico. We biked for 10 months from September 2009-June 2010 pedaling over 4,500 miles. Now we're out for another adventure with the USA. We began on October 8, 2011. Our route is fluid and there is no end date, check the About page for a map of our general path.

Key West

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 [...]

South Florida – Lake Okeechobee on down to the Keys

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 [...]

Inland Florida

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 [...]

Still heading south, more to come!

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.  [...]

St. Petersburg

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. [...]

Happy Holidays

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

Welcome to Florida

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 [...]

Vroom Vroom

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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