well I left steve and samantha all packed up with stuff from their store which they gave to me without letting me pay. one of things was 'monkey butt powder'! lets hope it doesnt get to that! so i made through tallahassee up and down loads of hills..... and more hils all the way to Quincy which is a classic american town straight out of Happy Days. the sun was blazing down and i think i am slowly ridding my self of my pastey british skin. made it to a small town called gretna where i played some horse shoe throwing with a large group of african americans who took the piss out of my lack of ability! loved their banter, think they would fit in well down the local boozer. the undulating scenery seemed endless but it was all worth it when i got to lake seminole which is right by a town called sneads. was the perfect reward for a hard days work. whilst enjoying the view i bumped into a fellow cyclist called Alan who said i was welcome to take a shower at his place. Alan turned out to be a great guy and we went out for some cajun fish. i stayed at his place and went to bed very early as i was shattered.
woke up riculously early today at 6 and said goodbye to Alan. the weather forecast was horrendous so i got going under ominous clouds. thankfully i made it to marianna for breakfast and the heavens opened. timing essential. after plenty of twisting and turning past the armadillo, snake and frog roadkill i stopped for a break at cottondale where the owner of a fruit shop opened his store just to give me a free orange and apple. dont know what i did to deserve all these lucky meetings. anyway it is almost lunchtime and i am taking a break from the 20-30mph headwinds at chipley. great library by the way, wonder if there is some mafia boss in town trying to appease the locals. Hasta pronto
Attempting to ride a bicycle from the coast of florida to the coast of california.
