So yesterday my last day in the lovely town of charleston, we got to go to folly beach and enjoy a nice outside lunch at a beach cafe which was delicious! Me and Sean who is my housemates boyfriend went to a sports bar later and watched the phillies beat the braves. Sean is an interesting character, for only being 22 he is almost entirely covered with tats and he occupation is a body piercer, cool. He once rode from st Augustine Florida to San Diego over 3,000 miles in a 3 month trip through almost every mountain range in the US. We spend the evening talking about travel and I learn alot about hopping freight trains! Apparently there are underground maps made by jumpers called crew sheets that you can download and tells you how to get around and time and dates of cars going and coming. He tells me he lived that life for months off a bag of rice, hot sauce and a refillable jug of water!...now this is really cool. I have not yet started searching the Internet for crew maps but o I will!..just curious. After 4 hours in a bar watching the entire game I'm beat and ready for bed, they drop me off and continue in to the next bar.
So I start out to savannah early and my wheels are moving in the pavement by 8:00am. I get out of the charleston limits and then I see it. The large green and white sign that says "savannah 108 miles" it just hits me in a kind of intimidating way. I thought it to be about 103 and appears to be even a couple more. I've rode 130 in a day down the entire del-mar-va peninsula but I did it in parts I have never seen one sign with that distance on it. I kinda panic a bit and then pull it together. My mornings are my best time to ride from 8-11 I fly usually only taking one break I can easily cover 40 miles in this period. So that's what I do head down iPod on it's time to go to work. I look at it that way sometimes because the road I was on wasn't that scenic and had no shoulder! Kinda sucked but it sure does beat a day at any air conditioned office running around pretending to be busy. I got freedom out here, purpose, perspiration, inspiration and excursive.
So about 10:30 I pull up to a sunoco kind of in a not overly joyous mood I think because I almost got brushed by a couple motor homes! But anyway I want to shake my bad mood off! I go inside and 3 black guys just hanging out start pelting me with questions. Where you coming from boy, where you going? Why? I gladly answer them all and they seem to be interested in the journey. Vince, they guy working the register, asks me who I'm riding with. I give my standard same answer "nobody just me and God" his eyes light up and he cracks the biggest southern smile I've ever seen with his white teeth gleaming at me he exclaims "THAT is an AWESOME team!, he repeats himself and says it again! I can't deny it's not and have to agree. We talk for a couple mins and I'm thrilled to find out he has been many places and we have a good talk filled with excitement about gods big beautiful planet and how good it is. He gives me a pound and I take off. Walking out those doors I had my biggest Yankee smile on. Vince snapped me out of my mood!! Wonderful guy!
Back to work, as I continue to ride it continues to get hotter, I think most if my ride it stays about 90 outside and that just beats you down after a while. I couldn't drink enough beverages, I would just sweat them out instantly. I didn't go pee the entire day and I must have filled up both bottles about 6 times.
Highlights...roadside homemade peach cider, riding through a marine airport watching fighter jets land directly overhead, snakes on the shoulder of the road, armadillo roadkill (never seen one before too bad it was splat) swamp, river inlets, bridges, plantation fields, great random selection job by the iPod in the old school hip hop department, the conquest.
So into savannah I come across a big beautiful bridge seeing the town from an almost aerial view. Once into town I cruise around a bit, call my host and head to 311 east 52nd street in the Victorian district.
I meet don, compliment his house, settle in, shower and nap. I then walk out a couple blocks for some good Japanese food and hit the grocery store. Don is a nice guy and offers me a ride downtown tomorrow to sightsee! I plan to do touristy stuff tomorrow and then possibly head to the local beach Friday before heading out 100mulws south to jeckyll island my next destination. Nite
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