On Sunday we dipped our tires in the Atlantic and headed west, with nights in Lake City, Callahan, Perry, and Sopchoppy, Florida. Since then we've built (approximately) one house, biked 350 miles, and swum with manatees (and gators). I've been surprisingly unsore, and with all the hospitality, good will and calories we've received from folks along the way it's hard not to stay energized. My highlight so far is cranking out 8 miles in about 20 minutes to swim the clear, cold Wakula Springs in a mangrove forest outside Sopchoppy. That or the 2 lbs of ice cream I put down after finishing 80 miles on Monday. I'll try to get some pictures up soon! I should add that you can follow our route on the bike and build website: www.bikeandbuild.org with daily updates on mileage, journal entries, and other good stuff.
Another fun fact I realized today (when we sighted the Gulf of Mexico through the Loblolly Pines): ours is the only Bike and Build route that hits three coasts! It's incredible we've put the peninsula behind us so quickly.
For breakfast I had 2 bananas and three plates of eggs, bacon, grits, and biscuits with gravy and Tupelo honey (apparently the Apalachicola Basin makes the best stuff in the world).
"Well Florida sounds like a colorful, lawless swamp, if it's a real place . . "
THIS TRIP IS AWESOME.
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make sure to ration that chammy cream!
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Thanks for the blog update. Glad to know all is well and that the riding is mostly enjoyable. Ride hard, work hard, have fun....
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