Trips & Places

Do’s and Don’tsDO…  READ THE BLOG for great tips on Stuff, Food, Hotels, and Entertainment. Below are just some extra tips from Emmy. STUFFDo... get prescription sports glasses for riding. They are biking sunglasses with inner prescription lenses that easily snap in

We rode the one paved, often broken, curvaceous bike trail from downtown Miami 20 miles to Homestead. In Miami, the trail is under the elevated commuter rail. From Miami it winds through the suburbs, including Coral Gables, home of the University of Miami. Before

Another long overdue update on our trip. Finally, we are enjoying the sun-soaked rides we sought rather than the just soaked rides. We moved up our rest day from day 10 to day 9 in Palm Beach, which made it easy to attend a

Today, we are riding from Hutchinson Island through Jupiter to Palm Beach. In Jupiter, we’d be meeting Emmy’s boarding school classmate from Westover School, Genie Jessup Murray. We thought we could ride out the storm. But, that was not to be.  Just

We are so not Navy Seals. We visited the National Navy UDT-Seal Museum.  We learned that real Navy Seals are incredibly tough, well-trained, courageous, patriotic, and dedicated to each of their team members.  They truly leave no one behind. The stories in the Presidential

It always pays to eat local and eat the local catch.  In Florida, the local catch includes grouper, wahoo, and shrimp.  You can have them all fried, grilled, or blackened.  You can have them presented in salads, sandwiches, tacos, and platters. Emmy’s favorite

Today, we rode to Indian Harbor Beach.  What’s a little wind? ...say, 18 mph.  What’s a little rain? ...say,  an inch. Ya know wind at your back is not so bad even if it is pelting rain at our Goretex ensconsed upper

Another uneventful day on which we did not get drenched.  Hutchinson Island is long and skinny and possibly not likely to be above sea level in 50 years.  Actually, it still will be but storm surge won’t see much of a barrier. We

So much has happened.  An update is way overdue. Now we are catching up with a barrage, yes—I say a veritable barrage of posts.  See all the posts below for all of the updates. Uneventful [day 4] (https://a-view.org/floridacoast/post/day-four/

Day 4 as uneventful but long: 51.4 miles.  We arrived in Titusville, whose primary claim to fame is the jumping off point for visitors to the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral. We didn’t schedule time to visit—this time.  But, if

Today, we sailed along A1A with the wind at our backs, often riding seemingly with no effort at all at 14 to 16 miles per hour.  The path was nearly straight for forty-six miles. We started at a temperature of 42 in Florida.  It