Day 13, The Final Journey, Wakulla Springs to Home.

I got up a bit earlier so I could walk around outside and see some of the grounds. It was a beautiful morning, lots of animals waking up. I took a hot tea out with me and wandered down to the lake. I could see the floats and imagine swimmers from the 40's and 50's swimming and enjoying the water.

Early morning at the lake.

Before the haze burned off.

Nature noises.

The lodge from the lake.

Once again, when it was time to pack up, I only had to throw a few things in my saddlebags and T-bag. I was loving the decision to do that the last 3 nights. I got spoiled living at the Inn in Kerrville Saturday through Friday, no packing and unpacking nightly.

We left after 8:30 to ride the last miles to home. For me, to Spring Hill it was about 196 miles. We got back on the road, looking for the gas station the server from the night before told us was 2 miles away, 10 miles later we finally found it! Good thing we weren't near reserve! We fueled up, for what would be the second last time of this remarkable trip.

We stopped at Bett's Family Restaurant in Chiefland, the same place we had lunch on the first day of our journey. We made the outside trek to the ladies room, enjoyed a nice lunch and debated how successful we'd be dodging the black clouds/thunder that had rolled in while we were stopped.

We checked our phones to see what the radar showed. It showed a massive storm right overhead. It wasn't raining yet, so we hopped on our bikes and headed south. Good decision, we didn't get rained on and finished riding down US 19 to Grover Cleveland and up through the country the back way to Brooksville under nice sunny skies, with just a few white puffy clouds in the sky. We were going to part ways at California and Powell, but when we got to the stop light, it was obvious if Tricia and Janet went down Powell they'd be riding right into a wall of rain. Been there, done that and Tricia bought a t-shirt! They went down Spring Hill and across Anderson Snow to Shady Hills. The both made it home safe and dry.

I left work at 11 AM on July 2, and arrived home about 2 PM, Monday, July 14th. Wow, almost 3000 miles and 13 days later, what a ride!

Starting KM 107300, ending 111880.