Glennville, GA to Statesboro,GA - 47 miles

Sunny and hot today!  47.2 miles; riding time was 3 hours and 43 minutes; max 23 MPH and average was 12.6 MPH.  No reason to rush - it was too hot to push it, and the rooms wouldn't be ready for an early check in.  No reason to be riding it like I stole it

I got up early, sat outside to catch a breath of fresh air then I walked a few blocks to the Mac Donald's and bought 4 coffees - not all for me. Coffee for Mary, Donna, Fran, and me. Some rooms did have coffee makers but not ours.

Breakfast outside - oatmeal.  

SAG stops at 15 and 30 miles.  Filled the water bottles and a few snacks (hard boiled egg and a cheese stick)

Lunch - peanut butter sandwich, I need to start mixing it up a little.

The roads today- mix of 2 lane highways and 2 lane county roads. Rumble strips and rough chip and seal pavement. Plenty of semis and pickup trucks with huge tires and no mufflers - quite dreamy!

Also a few loose dogs on the road.  I've been taken down by a dog, not fun.

I have a latte(s) in my future.  Dunkin is adjacent to our hotel and the Marilyn forwarded me a coupon for a free one.  

Oh yah!

Dinner - ribs, beans, coleslaw, brussel   sprouts, corn on the cob, and brownies for dessert.

Dinner cleanup -

Lorna working on the pots and pans

Dishwashers - clockwise Karen, Sue, Liz and Joyce.  Karen joined us for dinner and stayed to help with dishes, she did the southern tier trip with some of the gals on this trip.

After dinner conversation- Mary and Helen

Tomorrow - a day off in Statesboro, GA.

And the laudromat is a short walk away, clean clothes, it doesn't get any better than that!

We get to do it again tomorrow

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again! ~ Jack London, Author

Our tomorrow is 47 miles and 4+ hours. 

Blackshear, GA to Glennville, GA - 64 miles

Sunny and hot - bike computer temperature was 102 degrees (sun beating down on it and on me).

Today's stats: hot out there - low 90s; max speed 22.8; average 12.8; 62.5 total mileage; 4 hours and 52 minutes riding time.

The usual breakfast at the hotel - oatmeal. Made a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and was off. 

For the first 10 miles we rode on a 4 lane highway. The shoulder was rumble strips.  Then onto a 2 lane state road. We finished riding on a busy 2 lane highway.

This is the nice 2 lane road 

First SAG stop at about mile 15.  Valerie and Fran

Second SAG stop mile 32 - it was starting to get hot out

Jude and Mary - my riding buddies today

Our hotel The Cheerio Inn - I'm in a nasty smoking room - stinks. Fabreezed it!

Donna and I walked to the Rite Aid and stopped at Mac Donald's on the back - I had a fish sandwich - Yikes, I was hungry 

Sitting around waiting for cocktail time

Cocktails Gin and Tonics at Donna's

Jude and Mary

Dinner: grilled turkey burgers, veggie burgers, sliced cheese, green salad, chips and fruit salad.  Dessert chocolates and ice cream sandwiches/Klondike bars

Dinner crowd 

Only 47 miles tomorrow.

Folkston, GA to Blackshear, GA- 55 miles

Another sunny day, got warm (90 ish degrees), and a headwind the last 15 miles!

Today I rode with Valerie, Fran, Suzanne, Lorna, Jude, Mary

By the numbers:  57.7 miles, an extra 2.7 miles for me - our motel was 2.7 miles from the other motel, so we rode back there for breakfast; max speed 23.2 - nice downhill; average speed 12.5; and riding time 4 hours 35 minutes.

In this post I'll introduce you to some of the women on the ride.

Waiting for breakfast - Donna, Suzanne and Valerie

Breakfast - grits, baked eggs, fruit, coffee

Eggs, grits on the back pan

Breakfast around the trailer

Lorna, Jane, Janine and Helen

Some busy roads first thing this morning but not as busy as yesterday's 4 lane roads with road construction.  Some rumblestrips again today but not like yesterday's!  Yikes!

Coming onto the first SAG stop at mile 15, my mile 17.7

Lorna and Donna 

Getting snacks and water

Second SAG stop - Mary and Jude

Third SAG stop - Lorna and Valerie 

Fran

Jane, from Sturgeon Bay, WI

Teresa, from Caldwell, ID

One of the roads we were on today 

Three bumps on a log - Sue, Valerie, and Fran 

Checked into the Comfort Inn and laundry is done!

A thunderstorm came through around 4:00.  But it cleared up and dinner was outside.

Dinner- fish or pork tacos, assorted toppings (shredded cabbage, salsa, onion, cheese, tomato, guacamole) , fruit salad, lettuce salad, beans

Taco toppings

Beans and fish on upper left

Shredded pork

62+ miles tomorrow with rolling hills thrown in to make it interesting.

Fernandina Beach, FL to Folkston, Ga - 55 miles

We rode 57.4 miles today - some of us are in the Star Motel, a few extra miles down the road

Where we are staying tonight.  Half the group is at the Western Motel 3 miles away.

The flowers out front are the best thing

In room 32, sharing with Donna

The place is a dump but we will survive.

We are the Star group

Enough about the hotel - and back to today's ride.

The stats:  4 hours and 40 minutes riding time; 23.0 max speed and 12.2 average.

Busy 4 lane highway for 25 miles

View from the bridge

Trees wrapped in colored plastic 

Crossing into Georgia

Welcome to Folkston, Georgia

Dinner - roast pork, sweet potatoes, broccoli and grape salad, corn bread, roasted fingerling potatoes; dessert strawberry shortcake - thankyou Ellen and Jude

Sweet potatoes

Broccoli salad

Pork

Corn bread

That's all folks!