February 11-12, 2015

Wednesday, February 11^th

 

It was a bit chilly when we woke up this morning so we waited for the sun to warm up the air a bit. Then we made some sandwiches, loaded up our bikes and went to Sanibel Island again.

 

 

 

Not only is this a beautiful place to bike, but it is all level and easy for me to pedal. We looked for some more of the geocaches that are hidden along the bike trail.

 

 

 

 

We met a couple who live in New York State and Florida and they were also geocaching. One cache was named Gumbo Limbo cache-o and it was described as being in a tree also known as the “tourist tree”. We knew that this tree is comically referred to as the “Tourist Tree” because the tree's bark is red and peeling, like the skin of sunburnt tourists. However, there was more than one of these trees at the site, so it did take a few minutes of searching to find it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of the beaches have picnic tables nearby so we stopped at one to eat our lunch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a bit too chilly to spend time on the beach so we continued on along the trail. I did witness an irresponsible woman fail to yield the right away and she crashed into another biker. It made me wonder if she drives her car the same way.

 

I saw mailbox than made me think of Janelle because she has decorated her bathroom in a flip flop theme.

 

 

 

We enjoyed our time so much that we only stopped because we were tired, hungry and a bit cold.

 

 

Thursday, February 12^th

 

We did a few chores this morning only because we needed to have some clean clothes to wear and we needed to straighten up around the condo in preparation for the arrival of friends, Jim and Barb Hauser.

 

After lunch we made a run to the grocery store and stocked up so we wouldn’t have to interrupt our fun for our few days.

 

Jim and Barb arrived in time for dinner and they seem to have brought the cold weather with them.

 

 

However, they brought some wine with them and we seem to be very well stocked for at least a week.