The day started without any drama – smooth departure around 8:15AM or so after breakfast.  Scott and Tom had a meeting at 10AM, so we decided to stop for this on the way somewhere with good cellular service – and that turned out to be Dunnellon .  Nice town with marked on-street parking, and a…

Sunday morning we awoke to our coldest outside temperature yet.  We left our bike batteries charging overnight, and they had a thick layer of frost on them in the morning. Steve was sore all over, but game to do anything that did not involve bike riding.  We decided to take the jeep and try and…

Encouraged by our success of Friday bike rides we took off this morning for rides closer to Steinhatchee.  Tom and Steve researched both trails and attractions near our “campsite”, and discovered Steinhatchee Falls – “the widest waterfall in Florida” at 40 feet or so in width and maybe a 2-3 foot drop – reminding Scott…

On Friday we decided to take the old-man electric bikes in our jeep Polo to Fanning Springs State Park and environs.  On the earlier trip relocating Khan and Polo to Florida, Scott and Tom rode Scott’s “Ride Scoozy” and Steve’s “Rad Power” ebikes.  Since the entire group would be riding this time Tom needed to…

That’s the only stop for this trip as we experiment with different travel modes. We started with a cannonball run around the Great Lakes – 6 hours of driving per day. That pace was just too much. Then, we did the Mid-Atlantic Historic Coastal Cities Tour avoiding I-95 and limiting our daily pace to 3…