58.07 Mile Day - Yea!

Joan's View

We road on Route 1, a little bigger highway for a good part of the day.  The speed limit was 65mph and similar to an Interstate. At times, we had very little berm and it was especially bumpy where the state was doing an experimental concrete overlay on asphalt. Tony thought that was cool though.  

We had fun riding with Tom again and even came up with a few more hand signals.  Tom just laughs at us, but he is creative himself (forgot to get the picture of his orange construction vest). Going down any sort of hill, because the tandem is heavier, meant that Tom had to play catch up again because Tony & I got some nice speed :) Tony had us on a few scenic backroads here and there when he could, and we got a few fun pictures on those roads. 

Tony, surprisingly, spotted this engineering firm and it wasn't purple, green or even had Choice One in its name. It did have a good name in it though.


















Heading out of Daytona Beach, we also found the Goodyear Blimp parked at a small airport waiting for action in the upcoming Daytona 500.  Lots of cars were around checking out the grounded blimp from behind the fence as well.

Later on, we found a spot where we felt right at home (we live on Parkwood in case you didn't know).

Riding highway 1 for quite some distance and getting hungry, Cindy (who was ahead of us) found a cute diner near a flea market with good food for some empty stomachs.






At one point, Tony got a real shocker when our route took us on a sand road.  Tom was fine riding on it, but the tandem was swerving strongly so Tony decided that we should walk it so as to not crash or mess up the chains with the sand.    We looked back and smiled at our footprints.

We stopped walking the sand road to watch some hawks nesting on a pole.  

Lucky for Tony there was an ice cream lover's dream at the end of the sand road, and we stopped!  They even had a bubble machine outside of Frisbee's ice cream.













Arriving into Titusville, we can see Cape Canaveral. We checked into our adoringly quaint bed & breakfast, waited for Cindy to catch up with us and climbed into the hot tub for some relax time.  We finished up with dinner at the Cuban/Mexican restaurant across the street.  Once our bellies were full, we said our good-byes to Tom & Cindy.  Thanks, God, for great friends!

Tony's Side Notes

So, we took the road less traveled. When I planned the trip, obviously Google Street view didn't show the 1/2 mile of road that was made of sand. It is part of the adventure. When we were looking for lunch, we realized that there was a Chick-fil-A was about 6 miles back and Tom said, very definitely, "I am not adding anymore miles today."  That was the only thing Tom was that forceful on which made Joan and I laugh. By the way, the busy road we were on for so many miles, was the only route available to us. We really didn't feel that unsafe on it though. The wind wasn't as nice today.  It was a side wind, but at least it wasn't a head wind. Since the Winslow's left us today, we have to go back to carrying all our gear again.  No more being spoiled.