Bicycling the Tallahassee - St. Mark's Bicycle Trail

There is a reason why we stuffed the trunk with the bicycles.

We'd always wanted to ride the Tallahassee -St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail which is 16 miles one way.

Fortunately, Jack and Velma, were interested also.  They live on 5 acres in Hamilton County where they recently built a very nice house.  Velma and Mary Louise were school buddies and their grandparents lived across the street from each other in Hyde Park, Tampa.

The bicycle trail is great.  We accidently hit the prime time for blooming redbud and dogwood trees which were beautiful.   The day was a little warm but the trail is mostly shaded and away from the noise of any busy highways.  It's definitely worth a pedal.

Mary Louise and I previously visited the St. Mark's National Wildlife Refuge.  It is definitely worth a visit, also.  If we would have had time, we would have stayed in a hotel in St. Marks and ridden out around the St. Mark's refuge road.  

Velma hams it up.

More dogwood.

 Watch out for these three. 

The prize at the end - a restaurant right on the water across from the St. Mark's National Wildlife Refuge. 

It's always a little tough to get going after a grouper sandwich and a cold beer.