Yet another great day to be in the saddle. It was sunny and warm with a 10mph cross wind blowing in from the ocean. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see the ocean or the intracoastal for a lot of the ride because there were dunes and plants blocking the view. That coupled with the fact that the area I was biking was basically a desert of beach homes and developments made it a slightly mind numbing 67 mile ride. This is what I stared at for the majority of today.

Since the Candlewood Suites does not offer a continental breakfast I decided to bike for a bit and stop at a beach breakfast place on my route. I decided on the aptly named Beachside Cafe and got a ham and cheese omelette with a side of oatmeal and brown sugar. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m hungry all the time of not but the food I’ve eaten on his bike trip has been amazing. (Side note: I currently weigh 185 pounds… Holy crap! I’m usually 195-200)

I won another battle of man vs food and continued on my way south. As I mentioned above there wasn’t much to see for a lot of the ride but every now and then the beach or intracoastal would show up.

A few days ago Joe said to watch out for alligators on A1A that might pop out and eat me. Well, it was close but it turned out just to be a statue. Needless to say I survived the skirmish.

I saw on my GPS that I was near “Hang ‘Em High” which was one of my favorite Halo 1 maps so I stopped to try to find the street sign but to no avail. Ended up just taking another glamour shot of my bike.

I stopped at Publix when I got to Fort Pierce and got two subs, a huge Gatorade, some chips, donuts, cookies, and fruit. I like Publix a lot if you haven’t figured that out by now. I had just weighed myself and found out I weighed what I did in high school and decided I needed a ton of food. Here is the aftermath.

Tomorrow is the grand finale of the bike tour. I plan on stopping at Cafe Sole for lunch and taking the non scenic Donald Ross to Central Blvd route home instead of the increasingly miserable and dangerous PGA Blvd. I figure I will stop a number of times at CR Chicks in the coming week so I can wait an extra day for that. It should only be a 50 miler tomorrow so hopefully will be arriving around 2:00 if I go at a leisurely pace.