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Guest Blog: Cross-Country Bike-packing at 62: Indiana to Florida

Day Twenty-Four 

July 28, 2022: Thursday, Panama City Beach, Florida (53 miles)

Today was a really good day. Despite the rain, I made best time to date. Just under 10 mph.  Overall, I completed 804 miles in 24 days.

Last night I couldn’t stay awake. I fell asleep about 7 pm, which was for the best. I woke up with energy around 3 am ready to get an early start. I knew rain posted a threat, but after checking the weather in both Bonifay and Panama City Beach, I felt that I could dodge the showers that were coming. If not, I would just get wet. After the five hours of peddling in thunderstorms in Indiana, I am not afraid to ride in the rain. It is unpleasant and dangerous, but if that is the only way to make important progress, I can do it. 

On SR 79 south of Bonifay, FL
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Contact me: Csdavis23@gmail.com

Post-Arrival (February 3, 2021)

Panama City, Florida

Considering Next Steps!

When COVID-19 struck 11 months ago, my life was as disrupted as much as anyone’s. My family and I were in Honduras, where I work. All except my wife. She was in El Salvador visiting family. The border with Honduras closed within a few days, and literally overnight, we were physically separated in two different countries. The government suspended flights to and from Honduras. Curfews limited trips to the grocery stores, which were short on food. Every day, I walked around the neighborhood to local shops trying to buy potatoes, or milk, or whatever was available. My son and one of my daughters, in Maryland, lost their jobs in the massive unemployment wave that struck the United States in mid-March 2020. So they moved to our tiny two-bedroom condo in Florida. 

A Horse in a Lot near Our Townhouse in a Residential Area in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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Craig Davis guest blogger.

600-mile round-trip journey from Panama City Beach to Fruitland Park, Florida

Day Seventeen: January 23, 2020

This was my last day. Only 31 miles to ride from Youngstown to Panama City Beach, and I would be home. My internal alarm woke me at 5:15 am, and I was packed and out the door—with no coffee or breakfast—by 7:30 am. Immediately, I noticed that the ground was wet and the sky gray and dreary. It had been raining and was still drizzling. 

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