An Update/Yesterday's Slog

We are in Florida, at the lake house (shack on the marsh). We have an internet connection. Now you get the story:

We made the trip across the country without any problems, unless you count the little state of Texas as a problem, which I do. We spent two nights there, one in Amarillo and one in Longview. We made it home on Christmas Eve. The holidays have been great. We have missed our families here in Florida for sure. Here is the map:


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Here is a picture near the Book Cliffs in Utah on our first day.



Here is where we did not take the left turn in Albuquerque.
It turns out, Lupine really is a cotton picker, somewhere in Texas (Childress, perhaps?).


Lupine finally sees the ocean in Florida:



I have been riding a little bit, here in Clay County, Tallahassee, and with the Gainesville crew. Yesterday I had a nice ride from Jacksonville to here on the fixed gear beater. I had spent New Year's day there and did not have a car to get back. No problem, the bike works fine. The ride along the St. John's River was perfect. Near Orangedale, a bald eagle flew right over my head.

Jacksonville drivers on the other hand are a problem, but that is another soap box post where I will provide proof that our auto-centric world is only a brief, short, failed experiment. Here is the map of yesterday's slog:


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