Tuesday April 22, 2008, 111 miles (179 km) - Total so far: 2,752 miles (4,429 km)
Tonight I am staying at a great B&B in Madison, FL. It is called the Four Freedoms B&B and Chapel. Yes, chapel... they do weddings here! The owners, Rae and Stephen are very nice and Rae took me to the grocery store a little while ago so I wouldn't have to ride. They do a cyclists discount so anyone coming along through here, check the place out. It's a great old building that has the oldest stained glass in Florida in it's chapel, and will be featured on a program on the Home and Garden channel soon. The whole place is decorated with wonderful antiques and the grounds are pretty. I took some pics and will put them up on the next post. Another easy day! The biggest excitement for me was getting Jimmy Johns for lunch.. and dinner. I bought two and stuck one in my bag and rode the rest of the day with it so I could eat it tonight :) Some of you might know about Jimmy Johns and the addicting nature of their bread, for those of you who don't know.. well, that's too bad. I also got a smoothie right after that and now my belly is happy. The route today was on nice roads with good shoulders, except one portion that was not part of the route. I decided to skip a bike trail leading south of Talahassee because going that way was so far out of the way, just to ride 6.5 miles on a bike trail. It seemed pretty silly to me because there was a perfectly good road as an alternate. Turns out it didn't have shoulders and I can see why they avoided it, but a single bike with no trailer isn't too hard to navigate, compared to a group or people with trailers, so I felt safe enough. Only two more easy days to go! I'll be in Gainsville tomorrow night, and that puts me at about 100 miles from St. Augustine for thursday. If I feel really good I can go a little further than Gainsville, giving me a shorter victory-ride into St. Augustine. I've got a few pictures to share so see the next post...
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