The last thing that one should rely upon without question is a weather forecast. Even in today's world of smart phones, iPads, instant access to radar and Weather Channel apps, the weather is it's own master, prone to confusing the experts.
For example yesterday, the weather was far less rainy than forecasted and today? Well today was a 10% chance of a morning shower! clearing and sunshine by late morning. Note: I had talked of my various pieces of rain gear and wanted to advise that my gloves, pants, head cover and booties were all perfectly dry the whole ride as I had believed the forecast and packed them away for the day! Bummer!
How lucky we were to be under that 10% chance the whole 70 miles from White Springs to Gainesville. This is 5 straight days of rain, 4 of those days that we have ridden the bikes, the other being the rest day in Tallahassee. The good news is that the clearing has come, 4:00 pm, the tents are up for our last night of camping and all is good.
Better than good in that I am having dinner tonight with Dusty and Hillary Holly. Dusty was my Ag guy on our staff, a great friend and I haven't seen him since last October when I attended their wedding here in Florida.
Interesting note. We crossed the Sante Fe River today, a nice size river that at some point simply disappears! It is tgpjhere and then it goes underground to resurface many miles later.
The pictures for today? 3 from one stop where it was....you guessed it, raining. 3 are from yesterday that just downloaded.
Love the gator pic!!!
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