Yesterday we rode about 66 miles into Defuniak Springs. I rode with three girls, Rae-Leigh, Annie and Jenny. It was a good group for me to ride with and we kept the pace at about 15 - 16 mph all day (which is right where I like to ride at).
We did have one minor (that could have been major) mishap though... At about mile 14 we missed a left turn. The left turn we were supposed to have taken was onto a road we would have ridden for about 20 miles before we would have reached lunch. So... we rode for a little over 20 miles never saw liunch and realized we were on the wrong road... oops.
Luckily we hadn't been traveling the complete wrong direction though (I like to think I would have noticed that). We called the van and they told us what road to take to get back on track. All in all we ended up cutting off about 1/2 mile from the normal route and we went over one of the most beautiful bridges of the trip. I think it was a nice, albeit accidental, re-route.
Defuniak Springs itself was an unremarkable and very southern town. We stayed in the community center, but it had no furniture and didn't seem like it got a lot of use.
Today we biked about 86 miles into Pensacola. My longest ride yet! I was sweep which meant I had to stay behind the group with the other sweep, V, and carry a spare tire, medical kit and spare tubes. If any riders have problems we can help them. It turns out that there were a lot of problems today and we spent about 10 hours on the road (not even close to all of it biking though). It was a long, but fun, day.
I enjoyed riding with V, and another rider Lizz, neither which I have had the chance to ride with for a long time before. The route went over this really pretty narrow island too. I heard on the news while waiting to use the bathroom at the gas station (I have used soooooo many gas staion bathrooms) that the oil had hit the beaches in Pensacola, but I didn't see any. It is supposed to hit Panama City, where I just got to go swimming in the gulf, by Wednesday.
The church we are staying at tonight is super nice and it has couches, a pool table, ping pong,
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