Be afraid…be very afraid
We’ve been warned about all sorts of dangers by many different people so far, oddly enough none of which have been to do with being shot. Mainly it’s to do with road rage, bad driving, locking the bike and neighbourhoods. We had been warned not to stop in Belle Glade by a number of people as it was a dangerous city (here it appears a definition of a city can be anything from a couple of hundred people upwards and villages are posh estates in cities!) We didn’t stop but as it was into the wind when we passed through we could have been overtaken by grannies with zimmers doing...
Read MoreAnother world
Leaving our WarmShowers hosts we set off toward Lake Okeechobee to find the first 10km were on the main dual carriageway with tiny a shoulder. We asked the Sheriff for alternatives for a bike which left him baffled. “Where’re ya headin?” “Belle Glade” we replied “That’s 25 miles away!” “Yes” “By bike!!” “Yes” He looked like he’d just met a green eyed alien and all he could offer was pushing the bike through the sugar cane fields. But he was very polite about it! So we lit up the tail flashing rear light...
Read MoreThe East Coast
We only spent one day on the East Coast and despite cycling all day hardly passed any public beaches or coffee shops. The place is lined with enormous mansions – more like palaces (apparently Trump has one here) , with immaculate gardens tended by a small army of gardeners, and, in places, guarded by armed guards. Occasionally there’s a group of highrise apartments or a retirement complex, all owning the beach too and you just don’t see the sea for miles. Along this whole stretch every single plant and blade of grass was manicured to within an inch of it’s life and it...
Read MoreA Big American Welcome
If you’ve seen the sterotypical American house and neighbourhoods in films then this was the site that greeted us when we arrived at our AirBnB. Our hosts Linda and Don went way above the requirements of any host from hiring a van to pick us and Tilly up in, to sharing their mealtimes and food with us. They laid on so much food in snacks drinks and fruit that we hardly made a dent in it! Don supplied tools and help for reassembling Tilly and they both spent hours chatting to us and educating us in everything from road safety to tips. They were nothing short of fantastic and a great...
Read MoreNerves and Fears
We tend to plan 4 or 5 trips for every 1 we actually do. We have a habit of changing our minds and being a bit like kids in a sweet shop and having too many places we want to go to! But planning is half the fun so we actually have twice the fun for half the tours! But, once we have actually planned it and bought the tickets our excitement tends to evaporate. We start to get cold feet think we can’t do the trip and this year, events have conspired to make us think Linda’s friend “fate” didn’t want us to go on a tour at all! I broke a tooth, the toilet and water...
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