Bike week in Daytona

We made it to Daytona Beach, Florida about four and half hours from Savannah on Sunday evening.  Eric had started to get sick with some kind of upper respiratory infection and lots of coughing on Saturday.  Monday morning we located a walk-in clinic to get him looked at and got some meds.  We spent most of Monday and Tuesday lounging around letting Eric rest.  While we were relaxing by the pool, we saw a bunch of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins playing in the ocean.  Tuesday evening we went to the historic area of Daytona across the river from Daytona Beach and had dinner at Scuttlebuts Pub.  After dinner we checked out some beachwear shops.  We decided that we had just missed "Daytona Bike Week" thank goodness.  They had lots of Bike Week T-shirts on clearance.  We snapped up two really soft Bike Week T's. 

Wednesday morning we got up early and headed to the beach by our hotel for a nice long bike ride.  We, of course, donned our new Bike Week T's for the ride. We looked fierce.  It was fun getting to ride on the sand.  The sand here is a very fine, white sand.  The beach is very wide and there are traffic lanes along it for the cars. When you first enter the beach you cross some small dunes, then the parking area for cars, then the two traffic lanes for cars and finally a wide flat open beach area.  The parking and traffic lane sand is very soft and fluffy - it was hard to ride a bike on.  The wide flat area beyond the traffic lanes and closer to the sea is very hard packed and easy to ride bikes on.  The beach here is very wide open and goes on for miles.  It is all public beach and very accessible.  It is nice that you can drive down to the water and drop off your chairs, coolers and umbrella and then park your car nearby.  Our hotel is right on the beach.  We can step out the back doors of the hotel, walk past the pool, go down some steps and be right on the beach.

Daytona Beach sunset

My fierce Bike Week T-shirt - okay the basket on my bike doesn't make it seem so fierce

Eric's ride along the beach at sunrise