Day 60: "REST DAY"

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

We decided to go ahead and take a rest day in Tallahassee today.  Our "rest day" consisted of a leisurely ride from Midway to the west side of Tallahassee in the morning, a little shopping at Wally World, then into the bowels of the city for a visit to the local bike shop and lunch.

We had broken two spokes on one of the trailer wheels, Rick needed new gloves (his were stinky and shot), a new front tire, and tube.  The first bike shop we visited, University Cycles, was obscured by road construction so we had to ride around in circles a few times before we finally found it's side door entrance.  They were very helpful with almost everything but couldn't do anything about the spokes.  They gave us directions to another shop, Joe's Bikes, and also to MoMo's Pizza.  As it was after 1 pm, we opted to go to lunch first.  That was the BIGGEST medium size pizza I've ever had.  We couldn't possibly eat it all, so we wrapped up the leftover and took it to Joe's Bikes -- they really appreciated it and used it as partial payment for the spokes they had to hand-cut and fit for us.  But we got all fixed up.  We had left our trailer at University Cycles so we could navigate the downtown area unencumbered, so at 3:50 p.m. we headed back there, in a bit of city traffic.  At University Cycles, with trailer hitched up again, we met up with Dan (Warmshower's host) who treated us to a guided 15 mile tour back to his and wife Amy's home on the east side of Tallahassee.  So, on our "rest day", we actually had the following mileage:

Miles:  34.64
Time:  2:43
Avg:  12.75 mph

We had a great visit with Dan and Amy.  They have a lovely home and Amy is a fantastic cook!  She spoiled us with home-made spinach-cheese lasagna rolls, home-made garlic-parmesan break sticks, salad, and for dessert, pumpkin-spice cake roll with cream cheese filling (also home-made, of course!!).  They have done a bit of touring themselves and are looking forward to doing more, but alas, they still have (four-letter word) JOBS, so they are limited to vacation-type touring for now (7-10 days).  We all got along very well and hopefully we'll see them again sometime, perhaps taking a tour of Utah or the Pacific Coast someday.  Dan and Amy, if you are reading this, THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN!!!