Day 4 at 6PM

I had an orange flag on the back of my bike. When I get off my bike I raise my foot up and over this flag. This morning my foot caught the flag as I dismounted, bending the flag. When my foot and the flag lost contact, the flag flung itself out of its restraints ....over the fence next to me ...and far into the pond I was biking by.           I watched it sink          :D

Sometimes when the big trucks pass by me they create a wind that boost me along.

Southern Georgian accents in the country are extremely difficult to understand

If you help a snapping turtle cross the road, it will then thank you by trying to bite your toes off.

So far so good!

Its about 6pm right now, I'm at a library in Hinesville. There's a girl wispering in snake language behind me and a lady yelling at the computer screen playing a recording of a basketball game to my right, its a different type of place. Its day 4 now and I still haven't made a post until now- and that's because I've been very busy.

^Note: I've got to make these more often because I'm struggling to remember a lot of details as I write this

Summary of rides:

Day 1: New Smyrna beach ---> St Augustine

Got a flat 15 min in, after that smooth sailing for 80 mi. I talked to a cool guy for a while that I met at Tom Renick Park. Ride was along the beach, took a swim at the end of the day. Chilled at the beach until around 8pm when I started a 5mi ride to my host, Doris. Doris was a friend of my Grandma Jean's (thanks for having me Doris). On my way there I got a double flat, discovered I had schrader valve backup tubes instead of a presta, so I had to walk a while in the dark with mosquitos. It was a bad ending, however the rest of the day almost couldn't have been any better!!!

Day 2: St Augustine ---> Jacksonville (huguenot memorial park)

70 mi day.  Walked another 6 mi to a bike shop in st Augustine. They helped me get fixed up (I haven't had a flat since). The walk and work on the bike took a while and I didn't start biking until around 2pm. As the sun was setting I took a ferry to my campsite. Dolphins surfaced right next to me!

Day 3: Jacksonville ---> Brunswick  (Interesting day)

70-80mi. I decided to change route. Instead of heading west I'm going straight north. This shortened my milage by 30% and cut the amount of altitude change in half. But the biggest reason I made the decision was because I was afraid of getting too lonely. Only 3 days in I was already feeling a bit isolated. 

I headed north with basically no idea where I was going to be staying. Somewhere on route 17 I passed a dude who was biking from Boston to Miami. Later, about 70 miles into the ride, I stopped at a gas station and started talking to a biker named Paul who was also stopped there. He seemed to be popular in the area and knew all the people at the gas station. Paul offered to let me stay at his house, and of course I accepted. There I was given an awesome dinner that Paul and his wife, Marta, made. After that they let me use their massage chair, which really made my legs feel better, and then I had a great sleep in my own room upstairs. 

Day 4 (today): Brunswick --->Hinesville (55-60mi)

In the morning Paul took me to the Grandy's that he runs where we had a great breakfast. Paul and Marta were two of the most generous people I've ever met, and I thank them a lot. While my spirits were in top shape from the stay, my legs weren't. I decided to make today ride much shorter. Also the next few days I'm going to need to average about 80-90 miles. There's not many places to stay between here and South Carolina.

Update morning Day 5: Last night I stayed at Holbrook pond recreation center, which turned out to be within a military base. When I got here around 9pm last night nobody was at the gates, so I just went in and set up camp at a empty camping spot. It's now 6 30am and I'm about to leave. I guess I successfully stealth camped...within a military base hahaha