Today we were discharged from the Navy after having served
our 2 day enlistment. It was a wonderful
time but we are happy to once again be civilians and free to come and go
without an escort. We left the camp as a
group and headed over to The Oak Restaurant and Lounge, still on the base near
the golf course, for a fantastic breakfast.
After eating more than any of us should have eaten (the pancakes where
gigantic and the other food good too), we headed off in smaller groups to our
final destination, Henderson Beach
State Park
This is the first day of riding off the official Adventure
Cycling route, the object of which was to cycle more along the ocean. With this goal in mind, a good 16 miles of today’s
ride was to be along route 399, part of the Gulf Islands National
Seashore. As we crossed over the bridge
from Gulf Breeze to the start of the ride along 399 we got a group text message
from Chris (remember, he is ahead of us because he did not stay on the Naval
base) indicating that the route is closed.
Chris road about 7 miles along 399 before being turned around by a park
ranger, and he saved us all from having to do the same extra 14 miles of riding
he just did. We turned around and
retraced our ride back to route 98, which we took the rest of the way to our
camp ground. It was a sham we missed out
on riding the National Seashore for it would have been absolutely
beautiful. We instead had to deal with
the fast and sometimes intimidating traffic on route 98. All reached the camp ground safely.
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