Almost all Bicycle Paths on Valentine's Day

Tony's View

 Happy Valentines everyone! It was another great day of bicycling. We started out on a crowded bike path with many walkers. We had good time wishing everyone along the bike path a Happy Valentines day. We made a lot of smiles today. After the 5 miles of crowded bike path, we got back on a very busy Highway 98 for a while until we came upon Camp Gulf. Camp Gulf is where the Kunk's have gone the last 4 summers to camp in the 5th wheel that we sold to them. We had great memories with that camper, and this is one of the places Kunk's are making memories. As you can see in the pictures, it is right on the beach. After touring it, we can see why they enjoy it.

 After following many bike paths we came upon this health food store and restaurant that had a bicycle shop next door. It worked out great. Joan could look for gluten free food and I could look for things I don't need for the bicycle. It was fun. I talked geek talk with the mechanic and Joan got a gluten free brownie and muffin. After spending much time there, we took off and hit the bike path again. We got to go through some more quaint towns, one being Grayton. At the next one called Seaside, a sign said walk your bike. Good move on their part, and since we were off our bike, we decided to stop and eat. Yes, I get a craft beer made in the previous town called Grayton Fish Whistle IPA. Once again, it was very good. The food street was a row of Airstream campers made into food trucks. Joan even found one of the campers with gluten free bread. Joan made a friend with a dog that was a show dog and very well trained. It was trained to find lost people and identify certain scents like the ingredients used in bombs.
 The older couple to the above left got our best Valentines prize of the day. They were from Michigan and were asking about the tandem as they walked by. She was taking him on a walk and he couldn't see any more. They were so nice and we asked if we could take their picture. When I took their picture, I said you may be blind, but you can smile for the picture. He then let our a big smile. Growing old in love. What a great thing to celebrate on Valentines Day. 

One other thing I did at this stop was to finally listen to my phone. It kept saying since first thing this morning, every time I turn it on, to call Matthew and wish him a Happy Birthday. All I had to do was hit the notice and it called Matt. So, I did it and asked Matt what he did to my phone? He claims nothing. After all this we took off again and hit the bike paths.
The picture on the left looks like we are on a bike path in Florida. How cool is that? The other thing nice about these paths are that they were well used as you can see from the picture on the right.

 Along the way we had many views that were very pretty. This one to the left is when were on a bicycle bridge. Speaking of bridges, we only crossed one big bridge today.

One of the quaint towns we went through had all the houses and businesses painted completely white. They even had the steel roof shingles painted white (see picture to the right). I guess if you are going to live there, you better like white😀😎 

We decided to go swimming at our place, The Pineapple Villas, because they keep the pool at 92 degrees. Joan said it was the coldest weather she has ever gone swimming in. Outside temperature was 61 degrees and windy. We walked/ran over to the hot tub and froze, but it was fun.

Joan's Extras

Today was full of great bike trails and since most of the trails went through coastal towns, we got lots of questions, smiles, thumbs ups, pictures taken of our bike, and nice comments. One lady even rolled her window down while driving to ask us who made the bike. She could tell it was custom built. 

Dinner tonight was another adventure. The lady at the front desk told us about this nice Vietnamese restaurant within sight of this place. We walked to it and discovered it is closed until March 1. We tried the bar next to it, but it only serves drinks. They told us there was a sandwich place about a mile down the road. We started walking enjoying the night air with the gulf water in view when we found a local grocery store about 1/2 mile into our walk. We decided to find some dinner there, and brought back our goodies to enjoy our Valentines meal at our mini table.

The wind was very comfortable today. It made it easier to say our daily rosary while we ride except today I had the hiccups during the whole rosary. 😵