Every Italian racing bicycle should have it’s own bed. Actually, I couldn’t find a good place in the RV to store the bike. I certainly wasn’t going to hang the bike outside on the bike rack that is holding the mountain bike. I am staying for a week near Clermont and Mt Dora, northwest of…
Author: Rob Spera
Withlachoochee State Trail
Cycling the northern section of the Withalchoochee State Trail filled me with nostalgia. I’ve been on this trail so many times before I felt as if I was coming home. I started riding this trail back in 1995. I estimate I rode this trail somewhere between 200 and 300 times, traveling well over 10,000 miles….
Rainbow River
Rainbow Springs produces 490,000,000 gallons of water a day to form the Rainbow River. The Rainbow River joins with the Withlachoochee River which then flows out to the Gulf of Mexico. The Rainbow Springs Basin encompasses over 700 square miles from Dunnellon north to almost Gainesville, and east almost to Ocala. Some of the rain…
J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge
Here are some photos taken while bicycling through the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Florida. This wildlife refuge is one of 560 refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System. The System, encompassing over 150 million acres, is the nation’s largest network of lands and waters managed specifically for wildlife. Jay…
The Cats Meow
This is the first real excursion in the motorhome. The first two trips were mostly checkout/shakedown trips. We are on Sanibel Island, located near the southern tip of Florida’s Gulf Coast. We are staying in a quaint RV park. Most of the units here are mobile homes occupied by either full time residents or snowbirds….