Total distance 4720 Km (~ 2926 Miles)
Average 127 Km per day.
July 8 164Km
Today’s Points 1 Total Score 5
Without getting all sentimental
I made it to Diane’s today. Another long hot day in the saddle. I was seeing spots and weaving on the road for a while. I think I might of gotten a little too hot. They tell me it was 102 F out today. It didn’t feel that bad and in the shade, with the wind from my moving bike I never really felt like I was biking on the surface of the sun. But I took a needed break in the shade of a church lawn before I made the final push into the familiar.
The land naked
The places that we live, the places we grew up in, the places that we always would go visit; these places with their bars and grocery stores, restaurants and, houses, we feel that somehow these places are special. That somehow out of every place in the universe our version of a Grocery store is more special than any other. When I travel and especially when I travel by bike I see the land naked, for what it is without the rose colored glasses of familiarity. I see the towns and the spaces between towns for what they really are. All the same! WallMarts on that space of land that was the edge of town 20 years ago, downtowns that are just getting back to up and running after the death of the downtown years ago, and the proverbial railroad tracks separating us from them. These images of modern America, like a 21st century Norman Rockwell painting, give an image of America that we all understand. But today when I was coming back into areas that I have seen before while living in South Carolina last year, there was sense of place, home, and comfort in seeing a store familiar things but a sense of loss knowing that it was just like all the other things I’ve seen. In the end it is only the people there that make places worth living in.
I am reading the David Sedaris book Naked, I like his writing style.
July 7 161 Km
Today’s Points 0 Total Score 5
July 6 158Km
Today’s Points 0 Total Score 5
Georgia doesn’t believe in maps
For some reason the entire state of Georgia does not have any maps. Everywhere else that I have traveled has had rest areas, welcome centers, tourist info centers, and if nothing else maps in the gas station. Here in Georgia, I have checked most of the gas stations along the way. One this morning had maps, that you could buy of course (I didn’t of course). The rest of them don’t have any. Maybe it’s because nobody wants to come to the low country of Georgia and the people that are already here think this is God’s country so why would they want to go anywhere else. In any case nobody can enter or leave the state with the use of a map.
July 5 151 Km
Today’s Points 0 Total Score 5
Out of Florida and into Georgia to a Hardees
I ate at a Hardees today. I thought I would give it a try. I try the rest of the fast food places. None of them really make me feel good. So I thought I would give Hardees a try before they go out of business. The thick burger was good but very greasy and in the end, just a fast-food burger. Not really worth it. I think that one of these days I am going to learn that the fast food burgers just aren’t worth the hassle. Cheap, yes. Fast, yes. Disgusting, yes. Greasy face, yes. Belly ache, yes. I even got dizzy and thought I might fall off my bike. Let’s see tofu and peaches try to do that.
July 4 0 Km
Today’s Points 1 Total Score 5
Gainesville and more rest
July3 0 Km
Today’s Points 1 Total Score 4
Gainesville and rest
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