Day 40 Chipley, FL to Midway, FL - Gass-powered Tandem: xcountry - CycleBlaze

April 8, 2021

Day 40 Chipley, FL to Midway, FL

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We were not sad to leave this Quality Inn.  The roses out front were tended more lovingly than the inside of the rooms!

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Cloudy all day with a few sprinkles.  We mostly rode on U.S. Hwy 90, but we had one country road detour that ended up being during a passing storm...we didn't get wet, but we got blasted by sidewinds! 

Being on bicycles has made us much more aware of the wildflowers by the road.  They really enhance the scenery! 

Common wildflower combo: crimson clover, spiderwort and oxeye. We also have see tons of Lyreleaf sage.
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Field of red sorrel
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On U.S. Hwy 90 which parallels I-10. Both end in Jacksonville, FL near our planned terminus of St. Augustine. U.S. 90 starts in Van Horn, TX (one of our stops), I-10 in Los Angeles.
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Krista GordonI've been on US-10 in Jacksonville! It's a block away from Blair's house!
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Roadside lushness with Spanish moss
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Mistletoe, a hemiparasitic plant. We have seen it all across the South...just finally got a picture.
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Margery GassHow interesting! So amazed to read what Wikipedia said about it: "Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant. Their parasitic lifestyle has led to some dramatic changes in their metabolism." It shines a whole different light on mistletoe for me.
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We had more rolling hills than we expected today and they were bigger than yesterday.  Everyone is tired, even without losing an hour entering the Eastern time zone today.  We had a fantastic dinner at Tour of Italy in Tallahassee which is about 10 miles from Midway. 

Today's ride: 79 miles (127 km)
Total: 307 miles (494 km)

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