This would be a nice spot for a rest stop

I feel fairly certain that a rest spot at this location would within a relatively short period of time become world famous.

I say this because I am pretty sure that is what happened to that one across from Tunnel Park.

As you can see bicycling broke out and that is a good thing.  Visible in the photo are the GuestRider and the HostRider.

Personally I enjoy the occasional forays into travel writing, some of those travel posts are among my personal favorites.  For example I like the one with the photo of the FT bringing lunch back from the boulangerie with Notre Dame in the background.

But fundamentally this is a bicycling blog.  It needs bicycle content.

We took a bicycle ride.  As is almost always the case the second ride of the year was quite a bit more comfortable than the first ride.  My shoulders ache almost not at all and a seat adjustment remedied a front of the knee pain that surfaced overnight after the first ride (seat very slightly too high).

We are enjoying the exotic flora, it is one of the most striking aspects of any mid-continenters trip to the sub-tropics.  We haven't seen very much of this this year for some reason.

The semi-local snowbirds report that times have been tough for citrus since the hurricane several years ago.  Many of the citrus were weakened or out right killed by the big storm.  Further the last couple of years have had some citrus disease.  And then I guess we are not here at the exact time of years that we have been here previously.  In any case we haven't seen many orange trees with large numbers of ripe mature fruit.

That one seems to go against all of those problems.  It is a largish tree, certainly one that predates the storm.  It looks healthy, and it has a fair number of oranges.

Here's one that just isn't anything at all like the pine trees in the great north woods.

Very odd looking pine tree, almost a pseudo palm pine tree.  Very odd.

So I guess the temperature is a bit below average for this time of year here but today seemed pretty sunny and balmy to the GRider and me.  It sure beats shoveling.