I have been carting around my bicycle all trip and finally
got to use it today. Bob and I took a
nice twelve mile ride down to a lighthouse on the gulf. There were plenty of interesting birds that
we could not name but did enjoy watching and a few we could name and still
enjoyed watching. The wind was in our
faces on the way out and slowed us down considerably in that direction. We agreed that the wind must have died on the
way back as we could riding as fast as we did back was our usual pace :).
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| The lighthouse |
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| View along the Bike path with a bird I can identify |
From there we went to a great waterside seafood restaurant
and bar to make sure we replaced the calories we burned so our waistlines would
continue to make us look prosperous. The
food was delicious and sitting by the water watching the plants move in the
wind and the birds looking for handouts was the perfect setting for eating it.
Then it was off to Tallahassee center where most of the
buildings are state government ones Bob
had been a lawyer for the state and was a great tour guide. The old state capital
building is now a museum having been replaced by a boring white
skyscraper some years ago. Preservationists had to fight to keep them from tearing it down. I don not know about now but the legislators who were around then had no aesthetic sense at all. There we saw a display about
the election in 2000 and I learned that there was more than the hanging chad problem. The ballot was set up in a confusing manner besides and it turns out many people punched the ticket for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore by mistake, a
fact that I did not know. We then went
to the top of the skyscraper which afforded views in all directions for a great
distance, Florida being so flat. Bob was able to point out his college dorms from up there.
By the time we got back to the house Cheryl had returned
from her haircut appointment and was trying to get a dinner group
together. Using her best texting she did
manage to convince her brother-in-law Richard to accompany us. Bob has been reading this blog mostly I think
to see if he should bar the door rather than let me in but he did take to heart
my early observation that with the great hospitality I have received so far all
that any host would have to have their A-game.
Bob and Cheryl certainly did, picking an excellent restaurant near the
Tesla chargers in Tallahassee, so that I could drop the car there and have a
head start in the morning for Miami.
Richard was great company and told good travel stories to
compliment all the information that the well-travelled Bob and Cheryl had been
giving me. It was a fun, we then got to go
back and pick up a fully charged Hobson ready to go further south than he had
ever ventured before.
All in all this was another great day. We had wide ranging interesting discussions
that went from the cave cities dug by the Turkish Christians to the aborted
attempt to make a trans-Florida canal. We
had a nice, scenic bike ride and great food besides. What more could a traveler want? Every place and every day I stop are top
notch even if three of the stops have been with lawyers, the sworn enemies of
the medical field.
Charging stops
Tallahassee FL This is one of the best stations with a big
Publix in the parking lot and lots of restaurants close by. There were also no other Teslas there. We did not pick up the car within the time
limit set by Tesla to unhook and move your car after the charge was
complete. This is being done in response
to congestion at the chargers which this charger did not have so I am curious
as to whether I will be charged for my overtime stay even though there was no
problem leaving it there.
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