Sunday, April 6, 2008

The Journey So Far

Just a skeletal post with just the pics in, will flesh it out a little later. Some of the pics can't be clicked on for enlarging, not sure why, will have a look at the html. It's pretty rough and ready so please live with the poor formatting for now.

The bike, chopped, stripped and ready to go:






The bike in naked race mode in the hotel in West Palm Beach, man it looks sweet:
Riding out from Arcadia on Day 3:

Woulda been a nice place to camp:
Da wee beastie!




Heading into the swamp, didn't take this road but stayed on the tarmac instead:






Not everything is bigger in America! This is just by Zephyrhills:










It's a good way to cross a continent:









Clearly, someone disagrees:








This bike trail made me glad i bought a tricross, it was gravel with patches of soft sand, but the bike ploughed through both:





Construction roads no problem either:







The cockpit:





Reaching the Gulf Coast after about 400 miles or so. This was just after lunch on the awesome 137 mile day:


Yep, riding along the gulf coast sure is purty:



The mule poses seductively:





Just trying to make y'all jealous with some scenery:





Beautiful waterside hotel in Apalachicola, they gave me 50 percent discount too, and the room was amazing, ride over the water. I was very happy:





Crossing from Panama City to Panama City Beach, bridges are impressive and scary for a cyclist:


Riding from Navarre Beach to Pensacola Beach, road was closed, looked very post-apocalyptic, had about 20 miles to myself!


Post-apocalyptic refugees! Keep them outa my island!
Bike lane leading to the Fort Morgan Ferry (which never came) just south of Mobile:
Camping on the beach waiting for the ferry:
On a jetty in Gulfport, Missisippi
Gulfport beach:
Hurricane Katrina damage just north of New Orleans:
Crossing from Missisippi to Louisiana:
The Sunshine Bridge across the Missisippi, the scariest moment of the trip so far. Doesn't look like much, but it was like daring a monster:





Baseball knockaround, very professional stance, no?


Ross for some reason decides to play in his underwear, whilst Tyler does a mean Steve Irwin impression:


Cajun cookout, that's a table full of tasty crawfish:



Brandon, Hallie, Me and Heath:


Brandon, his truck and house:


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Makes me kinda jealous, if it wasn't for all that cycling I would be there ;)
Good to see some more pics.

Anonymous said...

Yay! Photos!

Mantadaz said...

Have you found 'Fight Club' yet?

all the best
Da.