Chuck's Adventures: Biking in Florida

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Biking in Florida

I've biked about 270 miles since arriving in Florida 13 days ago, all on trails such as Gainesville-Hawthorne, West Orange, Lake Mineola, Flatwoods Wilderness, Starkey Wilderness, Suncoast, Legacy, Auburndale, Van Fleet, and Withlocoochee Trails, the latter two trails more than once. The Withlacoochee is Florida's longest trail at 46 miles, and the Van Fleet runs for 29 miles, and here are a few of the sights i've enjoyed along them theislast week...

Here's the lovely Withlacoochee River where it parallels the trail around Brooksville...

I watched 4 wood storks along the Van Fleet near the south end...

About six tortoises were out sunning themselves as I biked the Van Fleet...

The Van Fleet on the south end passes this llama farm...

Henderson Lake along the Withlacoochee in Inverness, Florida...

No comments:

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

*******************************************

Featuring Chuck's adventures in Nature, adventures with family and friends, adventures in music, and adventures with words.

============================
Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

============================
Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
============================
The older I get, the better I was!
============================
Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
============================
I want to die young at an advanced age.
============================
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
============================
The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

============================

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
==========================