[Leica] IMG: Atlantic Beach to St Augustine on two wheels

[Jim Nichols]

I liked #10, with the wildflowers and the pristine beach area.  I didn't 
realize there was that much undeveloped beach left, but I looked it up 
and found it is park land.  Nice to know it is still there.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/26/2015 6:01 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I am spending a few days with my uncle in Atlantic Beach, near Jacksonville. My cousin from California, also a cyclist, has been nice enough to acquire a road bike to keep here, so that this morning I could use it to cycle down to St. Augustine, 51 km south of here. So altogether I cycled 102 km today. In one way it was very easy: Florida is flat as a pancake, so the ride only involved 70 m of climbing. It was very hot, of course, in the mid-90s, but that is not too different from my usual rides around Alicante in the summer. The challenge was more that I had not counted on being able to ride, so I did not have my cycling shoes or pants, so I just rode in my sneakers and gym apparent which made for aching muscles and a sore butt at the end. But it was still great, and I met a nice fellow cyclist from Alabama, with whom I had a nice chat and we rode a few miles together. As often happens, the nicest part of a travel event is meeting the people. I had my little Ricoh GR with me and the
>    resulting 12 photos can be seen here:
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> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/St-Augustine-by-bicycle/
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
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> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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