The Ride to the First Rest Day

Tony's View

We lost our Sherpa, Cindy, (as Joe Motz referred to her in one of the comments) along with our Sweeper, Tom, last night after dinner. Thanks Tom and Cindy.  It sure was fun to get together. Therefore, we had to ride loaded with all our bags again today. It definitely makes a difference. To make Joe Motz happy, we took a picture in the parking lot of our Bed and Breakfast with the tandem loaded. The owner was nice enough to come out and take our picture.

Here is a picture out in front of the Casa Coquina del Mar Bed and Breakfast. It is so nice to walk around in shorts with your morning coffee. The breakfast was awesome.  We had a lot of fruit and, yes, other things too. The picture below with the horse and the knight was outside of our room. We saw the big birds along the way, and they had two little ones with them. We didn't want to get too close because we weren't to sure how protective they would be, and I was scared.

 The ride today was pretty, and we had some really nice views, maybe the best views yet. We stopped for lunch at The Fresh Market. Joan got sushi and a plum, and then I went in and got some shredded crab and an orange. The food was great and eating outside in their patio was convenient to be able to keep an eye on the tandem. The orange was as good as advertised, Florida oranges.

 We were rolling along a very busy highway, and we ran across the WADE Christian Academy, so we stopped and got a picture to show our kids we were thinking of them.










The hotel we are at today and tomorrow is really neat. Our door opens up to the ocean and the room is more like an apartment, huge and very nice. We walked the beach for a couple of miles and went out to eat at a local Tavern. On the way back we took the sidewalk back along A1A and it was being repair. There was a 2x2 sticking up on one of the forms and I had my sandals on and stub my toe.  It hurt like crazy and started bleeding. Go figure, I would get hurt walking on a sidewalk.



The picture above is right outside our room.  The view is great. Actually, the picture to the right is one I decided to take to show you what it looks like while I am writing this blog. Full moon, ocean waves, doesn't get much better than that. Looking forward to our day off and hanging out around here. Church is only 1.5-mile walk, which we are heading to first thing in the morning, so good night.










Joan's Side Note

A little warmer, a little farther south today as we arrived in Indialantic.  I rode without a jacket today for the first time.  Walking along the ocean, we got our toes in the sand for the first time on the trip.  Lots of washed-up Portuguese man o' wars on the beach here so I googled them to get a little better understanding of those interesting little bubble creatures.