I got a reasonable start to the morning. My first stop was about an
hour away at Kennedy Space Center. The visitor center is relatively
easy to find and its cool to watch the sun coming up over the ocean.
The issue with some of the GPS points are that sometimes they choose a
specific site and sometimes they choose the middle of the attraction.
I couldn't get to the exact point on this so I took a photo of the KSC
Visitor sign and let it go at that.
I headed for Jacksonville but made a side trip to Canaveral National
Seashore. There was a ranger there that told me he took his grandkids
on a vacation when they reached 13 and he took them anywhere in the
world they wanted to go. I liked that idea.
I also found a KOA as I was traveling there.
Jacksonville was the next spot. The first two post offices I went to
didn't have any signs on them that said Jacksonville so I then aimed
for a fire station. It seems the data on my GPS is out of date as the
fire station wasn't there. But I did find a post office there that
did have a sign so I was set.
Savannah was the next stop. There are two spots to see in Savannah;
Parkersburg and the Bonaventure cemetery.
On my way to Savannah, I saw a sign for a National Seashore in St.
Mary's, GA. I rode to it and picked up an easy stamp for GA.
After I left the site, I found a library that would let me check
email. I could catch up with a few AP students that had emailed me
since I checked it the last time.
Returning to the interstate, I had the biggest scare of the trip.
There was road construction going on so there were two lanes to travel
through. The right lane had an oversized truck with two pickup
companion vehicles. The truck was traveling slow so I was third in
line to pass it on the left. All of a sudden, I heard a huge BOOM!!
And the cars started swerving. We all jumped on the brakes and nearly
came to a stop. It seems that one of the tires on the left side of
the truck blew and had thrown rubber everywhere. A car had a dent in
the passenger side door. I was glad that I wasn't the one next to the
truck!!
In Savannah, I chose to go to the wrong site first. I tried to find
Parkersburg. The GPS took me through lots of small streets and
finally onto a dead end street that showed me that Parkersburg doesn't
exist anymore. There were a couple of streets that were named
Parkersburg Ave, Drive, etc but those don't count.
The reason it was the wrong one to start with was because the
Bonaventure cemetery closed at 5 PM and I arrived there at 5:10.
There was a supervisor there but he said there was some type of charge
for being there after hours and that the place, as a historic site,
was monitored by cameras. I know he was sincere and he'd have let me
in if he could have. I took a photo of the entrance and am hoping
that might count.
I then rode to the first exit in South Carolina and ended the day.
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Todd Ryan; Hudson, MA
Westborough HS Science Teacher
MSF RiderCoach
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