65 miles from Pensacola to Crestview Florida. Mostly highly trafficked roads with some wonderful bikepath and back roads riding in between. Pensacola is the first bubble on the left on the map below and Crestview is the second bubble. (No, we didn't forget to put a bubble between numbers two and three; tomorrow's ride is 94 miles.)
The bridges are quite long; there is a lot of water to cross when we are near the Gulf.
Below is a picture along the Blackwater Heritage Trail. Note the red iron-rich soil to the left of the bike path.
Must be a day for things to be red, like this field of Crimson Clover.
We rode through a heavily wooded area where there was a lot of smoke in the air. We figured there must've been a prescribed burn going on not far away. The picture below shows a wooded area some time after a burn had been done. The ferns are now springing upon the floor of the forest.
This sign was placed in a roadside pool of standing water.
We finished the day with, yes, another party. This one was Rona's 60th birthday, with the commemorative poem read by Sheila.
The group as a whole seems much more relaxed as we near the end of our trip. Perhaps it is the flatter riding, perhaps it is sheer exhaustion, perhaps it is because we are all becoming friends.
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