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Welcome Anthony Pinos!
Our team of Scott, Tom, and Anthony Pinos (Scott’s 19 year old former Little in the Big Brothers program) flew to Orlando on Wednesday June 7th. The weather was hazy with smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanketing the Northeast with stinky and irritating blanket that made visibility limited – in fact, the next morning visibility…
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Dunellen Has Us Singing the Blues
The day started without any drama – smooth departure around 8:15AM or so after breakfast. Scott and Tom had a meeting at 10AM, so we decided to stop for this on the way somewhere with good cellular service – and that turned out to be Dunnellon . Nice town with marked on-street parking, and a…
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Steinhatchee Wildlife – Us
Sunday morning we awoke to our coldest outside temperature yet. We left our bike batteries charging overnight, and they had a thick layer of frost on them in the morning. Steve was sore all over, but game to do anything that did not involve bike riding. We decided to take the jeep and try and…
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First True Blood
Encouraged by our success of Friday bike rides we took off this morning for rides closer to Steinhatchee. Tom and Steve researched both trails and attractions near our “campsite”, and discovered Steinhatchee Falls – “the widest waterfall in Florida” at 40 feet or so in width and maybe a 2-3 foot drop – reminding Scott…
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Terrorizing Steinhatchee
On Friday we decided to take the old-man electric bikes in our jeep Polo to Fanning Springs State Park and environs. On the earlier trip relocating Khan and Polo to Florida, Scott and Tom rode Scott’s “Ride Scoozy” and Steve’s “Rad Power” ebikes. Since the entire group would be riding this time Tom needed to…
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Steinhatchee, Florida – that’s it, just Steinhatchee!
That’s the only stop for this trip as we experiment with different travel modes. We started with a cannonball run around the Great Lakes – 6 hours of driving per day. That pace was just too much. Then, we did the Mid-Atlantic Historic Coastal Cities Tour avoiding I-95 and limiting our daily pace to 3…
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Let’s Get Home
Sunday we woke early, ate breakfast fast, and hit the road for Southport, Khan’s winter home. As we left around 8AM, there was talk of taking the absolute fastest route, but we decided to stay on Route 17 until we got to Florida. It was a good decision, since we saw very little traffic. We…
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Our Busiest Day Yet
As has been our pattern, we woke with the sun – or at least Tom did. He headed to the Charleston KOA bathroom with the complicated method of entry that had stymied Scott the night before (hit 7643# on the door lock slowly and deliberately, and it might turn green and open.) While Tom was…
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What Hurricane?
Woke up this morning early to nice weather – or fairly nice, though a bit soggy – in Holden Beach RV Campground – “the home of happy campers.” During the trip today we saw very little evidence of a storm though we passed it going North as we went South. While on our way to…
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Rained Out
We woke up at Cliffs of the Neuse fairly refreshed and wondering when we could leave (7AM). Our biggest concern of the day was driving into the teeth of Hurricane Nicole, so we consulted NOAA.gov for hurricane tracking, Windy.com for wind predictions, and Google maps to gauge our distances. Our biggest concern was reaching Florida…
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Revised Plan – Cliffs of the Neuse State Park
The morning started around 6:30AM when the sun peaked over our rocking RV. The experience was best described as “mild to moderate turbulence” on an airplane. Not surprisingly, there was still no sign of water and little sign of anyone working there – so we left around 8AM after breakfast and showers in the RV…
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The gods Are Cooperating with Our “No Planning Mode” – by Foiling Our Plans…
We woke up early in Temperance, VA to strong winds from the North and ended up leaving around 8:10AM – somewhat earlier than planned. Given the winds, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel had us concerned, but the winds were at our back and not a problem at all. Probably got better fuel mileage. As part…