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January 9, 2019  |  By admin In Uncategorized

Finally Into Florida

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I guess its time to start writing again, but I guess after writing about the last few challenges it took a while for me to want to continue…

Finally moving again and the weather is beautiful, sunshine and blue skies. The roads tend on the boring side straight and open nice at first but then a bit boring, a bit of adventure would be great right about now.

When I see what looks like a nice dirt road heading parallel to me on the map I jump at the opportunity. It is everything I could have ever wanted shaded, winding, beautiful hard packed dirt, for a full five minuets I am pretty sure there was a massive grin on my face. Then I hit sand, the deep, soft and rutted type. Oh Shit. How the hell do people keep their motorcycle upright in this stuff??? I nearly went over but, at the last second I managed to yank it up and hit the throttle. Ok, after a minuet or so with liberal use of the throttle I seem to be getting the hang of it, the only issue with so much throttle is that it makes me go rather fast… After a couple of miles the road goes down into a dip where the sand was all wet, and I thought dry sand was wonky. I’m not entirely sure how far it was but I made it back to pavement without dropping the bike and pried my clenched fingers off the handlebars.

On solid ground again.

I found a beach that allowed camping, I should really look into a small pad for when I cant find someplace to hang my hammock…

At least the stars were pretty, I will have to do some more night photography, maybe when I’m not using my tripod to hold up my tarp.
Letting things dry a bit in the morning.

I stopped in St. Augustine for lunch, a very pretty city.

Might be worth coming back and exploring on foot if I get the chance.
Reminds me of a painter whose name I cant remember, one of the illusionists I think. Also, the Doctor Strange movie.

After lunch I went down the coast on A1A before cutting in Orlando where I would be staying with my Godmother for a while.

A beautiful place for a quick nap!

I stayed a while with my godmother and her family which gave me chance to do a few more repairs and upgrades; new crashbars, some aux lights and new heated grips.

The old crashbars did me well but after the accident they vibrated pretty badly
I decided to give zip ties a break and use a clothes hanger instead.
Not exactly an elegant solution but it does the trick.
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