A wintry February day and an inspiring biker

Thursday February 27, 2013
Site 49,  Sebastian Inlet State Park

 

Thursday

The cold snap continues and so do the winds. 

 

The birds are still waiting at the fish cleaning station but they are hunkered down and the fishermen are bundled up.

 

 

This is Florida’s version of winter.

 

 

 

In keeping with the winter theme, we decide we will have a hot breakfast today prepared by someone else.  We head over to the Long Point Cafe.  The bike parked out front catches our attention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We get settled in and order.  Then I look around for the bike owner.  I spot him and go over to ask about the bike.

The bike belongs to the Tom Wood sitting alone against the wall.  He is peddling it from Palm Beach Florida to Seattle Washington.  He’s part of a long distance biking association which provides route information.  Although he has MS he has planned this trip for a long time and says it will take him the rest of the year.   I give him my card and ask that he let me know if he does a blog or anything so I can keep up with him.  I admire his courage.  MS is a difficult disease especially as regards having consistent energy.

 

 

 

I have to stop my conversation with Tom as my breakfast arrives.  He goes back to his work.

 

 We give Long Point Cafe two thumbs up.  It’s a really nice local restaurant, very clean, reasonably priced and one of the VERY best breakfasts we’ve had in ages.  We have a lot of breakfasts to compare this to over nearly 3 years on the road even though we seldom eat out more than twice a month. This is, of course, a non-vegan breakfast.  Breakfast is our favorite meal to eat out and we look for an interesting breakfast place in the area of each park we are staying in for two weeks.  If you are in this area, we recommend breakfast at Long Point Cafe.

 

 

After our great breakfast we take a spin through Long Point State Park to see their campground.   They are across A1A from the ocean.  Most of their sites are water front on the Indian River.  The cost is about the same as the state park and you can stay up to 180 days.  At the state park you are limited to 14 days at one time and 56 days total a year.

All those water front sites definitely have an appeal  although I am so partial to Sebastian Inlet I just don’t know.  We might give it a try for a week at some point just to see.  Or if I can’t get into Sebastian which is likely the case if I don’t make a reservation a year in advance.  It is a VERY popular state park.

 

 

It’s now after noon and time to head over to the beach where there is more wind and even fewer people and surfers than yesterday.  Actually there is pretty much no one but us, the birds, one or two surfers in the water and this board stuck in the sand.

 

 

 

This gull shows how windy it is.   So we don’t stay long.  It’s probably our last time on this beach but I don’t say good-bye.  Just ‘see you later’.

 

 

 

 

 

Too cloudy for sunrise this morning but the sunset makes up for it.

  

 

Tomorrow is our final day at Sebastian and we have lots of things to finish up.

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