Day four of our tour started out just as every other day, waking up and wandering around, except today I wandered on a beach. It was low tide so I was able to walk about 150 yards off shore before I would’ve, more than likely, been attacked by birds who were out on the prowl for some breakfast. As I turned back I noticed our neighbor, Jim, just getting ready to tear down camp and set off. He and I exchanged a few words before he was heading East and I was heading downtown to “Palm Tree Books & the No Name Cafe” to soak up some Wi-Fi and catch up on virtual errands.
After a quick hour in the warm cafe, I rolled back over to camp where everyone was just getting moving. Breakfast this morning was omelette sandwiches with sweet & sour sauce left over from last nights stir fry, a nice change of pace from the Oatmeal. Soon after breakfast the daily ritual of tearing down camp began and we were soon on the hunt for coffee (for Joey).
Todays ride was one of the longer ones on the trip so far, 45ish miles. Our first 20 came and went very quickly followed by our arrival in the town of Appalachicola. We stopped at “the pig,” picking up dinner which will be pasta with tortellini and Newman’s Own pasta sauce.
On our way again, but this time we had two major bridges to cross, each a few miles in length. One was connecting us from Appalachicola to Easpoint and another from Eastpoint to the Island where we are currently camped out at. Both provided some awesome views and a very wide 8 foot shoulder.
The Island it’s self proved to be longer than we anticipated, almost ten miles in length from the bridge, where we crossed from the “mainland.” The ten miles was defintiely the toughest so far on the trip menotinous plus ten to twenty mile an hour head winds make a pretty difficult ride after the long day. Soon, we had set up camp, walked with our feet in the sand, SHOWERED! (for the first time in 6 days), and were just relaxing.
When sunset was approaching I started to take a stroll on the beach. Along the way I discovered Alligator filled ponds (didn’t see any alligators though, that’s the goal for the morning) and a few awesome sand dunes. Sunsets down here in Florida seem to beat the Missouri sunsets on the awesomeness scale, hands down.
Tomorrow we are headed about 30 miles East of where we are right now. Just in case you were wondering, tonight will be the warmest night so far on this trip, just around 40 degrees.
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