Woke up today to lots of wind and clouds. yuck.
Even yuckier was poor Cook's lips-- they had sunburned and so swelled up over night! He was having trouble speaking right, and closing his mouth...poor guy looked ridiculous. But as the day went on, they got much better.
The wind made it a slow start- 25 mph with a sail of a dog trailer slowing you dog makes for slowwww going. One of the first things we had to do was cross a causeway (bridge) back over to the barrier islands. The straight headwind- plus steep climb meant 7 mph for us! I thought that when we crested the hill, it would be an easy descent. But instead we had to pedal just to getdown hill, and only hit 11mph!
It got colder and windier, and we were worried about the next campsite - it was supposedly infested with VERY bold raccoons. We decided to lok for a motel - but most were sold out...we ended up staying at a really small one, that is suposedly the last one for 30 miles. It was in Floridana Beach. The owners were taklers- sort of new age wanna be hippy people. They were worried about the dog messing up the room, which was funny, all the furniture/sheets/etc were all really old and mismatched. Like they grabed it all for $5 at a yard sale!
But the beach was across the street- and since we had a shower to wash off the dog we could let her run around and burn off some energy.
Waiting for the room to be made up-
promise- i won't chew anything!
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