Day 3 Navarre Beach Florida - Non Travel Day
Great weather again! We walked a mile at the campground for our health. Jim's knee started hurting, my hips were a little stiff. Then we headed over the causeway to Santa Rosa Island to ride our bikes. Rode 8 miles with a strong head-wind on the way back to the car. Why is the head-wind always on the return trip when your already tired? Now, my thighs and ankles hurt...his back. All this 'healthy' exercise is KILLING us! I've figured out that if you're over 50, if you get out of bed in the morning and nothing hurts...you probably died during the night and don't know it yet!
Seriously though, the ride was very pretty, but sad that so many ghosts of Hurricane Ivan are still around. This area saw much destruction. Abandoned beach houses are everywhere, some entire streets swept clean of homes. Ivan was almost FIVE years ago...
We came back for lunch and sat out on the beach, burned a little and the tops of my feet are red and itchy. While we were there we started talking to a very nice couple, close to our age from the St. Louis area. Really hit it off, our views are amazingly similar. We know a good seafood restaurant in Pensacola and we all went out to a very pleasant dinner. We love their signature dish *Shrimp and Grits a Ya Ya* .
It's a good thing we walked AND biked today because there are easily a half million calories in that dish!
The weather is supposed to continue to be great so we're going to hang around here for a few more days. The campground is extremely clean and quiet (except for the artillery being exploded nightly at the enormous base not far away) and we have shade trees. Beaches and shade trees are hard to find in the same place!
Have no idea what we'll be doing tomorrow...but that's how we do our trips.
Great weather again! We walked a mile at the campground for our health. Jim's knee started hurting, my hips were a little stiff. Then we headed over the causeway to Santa Rosa Island to ride our bikes. Rode 8 miles with a strong head-wind on the way back to the car. Why is the head-wind always on the return trip when your already tired? Now, my thighs and ankles hurt...his back. All this 'healthy' exercise is KILLING us! I've figured out that if you're over 50, if you get out of bed in the morning and nothing hurts...you probably died during the night and don't know it yet!
Seriously though, the ride was very pretty, but sad that so many ghosts of Hurricane Ivan are still around. This area saw much destruction. Abandoned beach houses are everywhere, some entire streets swept clean of homes. Ivan was almost FIVE years ago...
We came back for lunch and sat out on the beach, burned a little and the tops of my feet are red and itchy. While we were there we started talking to a very nice couple, close to our age from the St. Louis area. Really hit it off, our views are amazingly similar. We know a good seafood restaurant in Pensacola and we all went out to a very pleasant dinner. We love their signature dish *Shrimp and Grits a Ya Ya* .
It's a good thing we walked AND biked today because there are easily a half million calories in that dish!
The weather is supposed to continue to be great so we're going to hang around here for a few more days. The campground is extremely clean and quiet (except for the artillery being exploded nightly at the enormous base not far away) and we have shade trees. Beaches and shade trees are hard to find in the same place!
Have no idea what we'll be doing tomorrow...but that's how we do our trips.
