The beginning of the 84 mile ride was great, the end not so great as I didn’t finish the ride. First the nice part. I’m getting hungry about 40 miles out and see a pizza place, yum, I pull in park my bike by my table, sit down and look across the street and WOW, surprise, surprise, a beautiful castle. The pizza was superb and I know that to be true because our guide Enrico joined me and he said it was good and as he pointed out he’s Italian and should know.
Now to the downside of the beautiful day. About 45 miles out I hear a clanking noise which is not a good sound on a bike, one of my spokes has broken and wound into my gears. In all my miles of riding I have never broken a spoke. The van had to be called, cannot ride anymore, no problem, if I miss half a day out of 45 but there is a problem when the van is 1 1/2 hours away and I can see the black thunderstorm approaching. I am hobbled with my bike on the corner of a residential area and cars keep driving by and looking at me. When the storm hits, it is a doozy, a great wild Florida thunderstorm so I am sitting on the sidewalk behind a streetlight post praying lightning doesn’t strike when I notice that the street cannot take all the water flowing down it (slight slope) and now the water is coming up over the curb. Now I am sitting in 2 inches of water. Biking does have it’s down side
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