Trippin' with Susan Straley

  Hey!  We are on our way! Today is our first day of my six months of travel over the summer.  Much of it I will be doing with Steve.  Hence the "we" in the first sentence.  Both of us left our respective homes this morning pulling our trailers.  We left our lovely trikes at home to rest and just have our two-wheelers with us.   I decided to go trikeless because I wanted more space for stuff in my truck bed and because I will mostly be riding gravel trails and some single track trails this season. But before I tell you about today,, I am sure you are curious about our trip to Fort Myers. We stayed at the same place we stayed in November.  Linda and Dave had added a bathroom and an outdoor sink and shower for outdoor camping guests.   The organization Matlacha Hookers got us in touch with some women that needed some small things done.  Just right for a team of two.  We cut down a tree and put up a porch railing and put up a metal shed.  It was fun and I learned some things abo

 Greetings from Inverness, Florida. I have sooo many stories to tell.  So much fun to share.  But I will save you from yawns by telling you only two of  (what I think) are the best. Blessed If you have been reading these letters for over five years, you will remember this. These pictures are of George's trike when I had it for sale in 2017.  He won first prize at a Catrike Rally for the lovely paint job on his trike. He was active on the recumbent chats online.  His alias was Whitecat on Bentrideronline.com. His first Catrike was white.  But then he had this Catrike Expedition custom painted by a motorcycle painter in Tampa. In 2017, George's dementia had progressed and George could no longer ride it.  We were getting a tandem trike to ride.  (Which is another awesome miracle/blessing story.  I wrote about that in The Journey Continues: Alzheimer's Trippin' With George .). I sold George's trike to friends Kim and Bill.  They are Windemere neighbors and Kim is the da

We went on a little Bike Tour! Steve and I just got back from a short (five night, six day) bike tour.  We went with my long-time friends Regis and Cindy Hampton.  I want to tell you all about it, but first I have other stuff to share. Be patient, or just scroll down.  That is the good thing about the printed word, you can just skip the parts that don't interest you. When it has been over a month since I last wrote to you, there is a whole lot to share!  But I am going to try not to bore you and just tell a few stories and highlight the bike tour because I know some of you will be interested in that. Thanks for reading on... Hard To Part With Stuff Holding Memories  This weekend the campground where I am parked by Inverness, Florida is having a park-wide yard sale.  A lot of the residents are putting their stuff on my neighbors' yard and in their car port.   I had forgotten all about the sale and was heading for the gym when I saw some neighbors organizing the merchandise.  I t