Archive for May, 2008

Day 10
Thursday, May 29th, 2008

After breakfast at the Cypress Inn diner, we headed out, a little before 8.  The morning was surprisingly cool, almost cold we both said.  Not sure what the exact temperature was, but we weren’t used to anything below 70 for the past few weeks.  We eventually warmed up as the sun caught up, but it [...]

Day 9
Thursday, May 29th, 2008

After rising up from Beverly Hills (the name of the city the rv park was in), we headed out of town to get some breakfast.  We rode for about 10 miles and got to a Dunkin Donuts where we stuffed our faces.  It was a good thing, because we wouldn’t have too much ahead of [...]

Day 8
Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Back on the road.  After stuffing ourselves at the motel, we hit the road.  After riding for a while, we met up with a crew of 25 or so firefighters biking  to honor 9 members that died in a fire.  They had a supported motorcade, and would take up a lane.  It was pretty cool.  [...]

Day 7 (Disney)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008

The day started with the “contintental” breakfast at our motel.  This had to be the best continental breakfast I had ever had.  They had a belgian waffle maker!  We really filled up on that, and headed into Walt’s world.
Picking up flyers on the way in, we noticed extended park hours.  How fortunate!  We were going [...]

Day 6
Thursday, May 29th, 2008

After eating a hearty breakfast, and awaiting Gary and Carol’s return, we were ready to head north towards Kissimmee.  We looked at some final bike issues, took our pictures, inflated our tires, and headed out of their development, again with their assistance.  We said our goodbyes and were on the road, headed for Disney!
Thanks to [...]

Day 5
Thursday, May 29th, 2008

With 60 miles to our destination, we set out early heading towards Gary and Carol’s house in Sebring, FL.  We figured we’d get there decently early and be able to relax for the remainder of the day.
Again our path was pretty sparsely populated… with humans at least, but boy there were lots of orange groves.  [...]

Day 4
Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I’ve decided it’s lame lumping multiple days in one posts… and makes for too long of a read, ergo day-by-day posting.
Continued from the previous post…. Since we got a late start and normal breakfast places weren’t open we ate breakfast at Subway (thank god for the $5 footlongs…. we’ve been abusing that one), and departed [...]

Days 1-3
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

So the journey has begun…
Paul and I set out for our first loaded day expecting to do about 50 miles.  We made our first stop about 30 miles from the campground at Bahia Honda state park.  It was a very relaxing, beautiful park with some historic old bridge that we joked about riding on on [...]

Pre-trip
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Sorry, its been so long since my last post, but it’s been tough finding an internet connection, and enough energy at the end of the day to take care of these things.  Nevertheless, after three full days I do have some traveling experiences I’d like to share.
Key West Arrival
After finally making the drive from Ft. [...]

Departure
Friday, May 16th, 2008

And so the journey begins…
Last night in CT for quite some time.  I am anxiously awaiting what lies ahead, but will surely miss those who have made the past… well month really… a special one for me.  For those of you who aren’t exactly sure what the hell it is I’m doing, or why I’m [...]