April 12, 2021
Day 4 - High Springs to St. Augustine
Century day
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This is the first time we've ridden a century on tour. We wanted to be able to have the free day in St. Augustine we has planned, so we would have to do two day's ride in one day. It was long, but not really hard, just tiring. The day was beautiful, blue skies and sunshine.
The ride from High Springs to the outskirts of Gainesville was nice. We were on low traffic, rural roads most of the way.
We then rode 10 miles or so through the suburban sprawl of Gainesville before reaching more small towns and the start of the Palatka-Lake Butler Trail.
We stopped for lunch at Subway in Melrose and met these guys. Doug was just full of enthusiasm for a trip. It was a lot of fun talking to him and meeting them both.
Just past Melrose, we got on the Palatka-Lake Butler Trail. It's a rail trail that took us just to the outskirts of Palatka. There is a gap there, the then trail continues to St. Augustine as the Palatka-St. Augustine Trail. It was nice to be on a relaxing trail for the second part of our long day.
Just after we got on the trail, we saw a couple on a RANS Screamer. We had to stop and talk to them, of course. We don't encounter many other recumbent tandems!
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The trail has a gap at the town of Palatka. At this point, we had ridden 70 miles and it was 2:30. We decided that 30 more miles was definitely doable, so after a little break, we rode across town to the Palatka-St. Augustine Trail. It goes through the towns of Hastings and Spud - Florida's potato capitol.
We got to St. Augustine about 5:45 and after a shower and short rest, met my brother and sister-in-law for dinner. It was a long, happy day and tomorrow is a rest day in St. Augustine.
Today's ride: 102 miles (164 km)
Total: 199 miles (320 km)
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