90 on 90

Today's ride was called "90 on 90". Not many turns - ride a few miles to get from the hotel in Crestview FL to the US90 highway, ride 90 miles east, get off and ride a few miles to tonight's hotel in Marianna FL. It wasn't too bad as far as highway riding goes. US90 parallels I-10 so most of the traffic is on the interstate. The shoulder was wide and smooth, so no complaints there either. The scenery was - lacking. We are well away from the coast now and won't see another ocean view until we ride into St. Augustine. We rode through a number of small towns which provided momentary diversions. We did go in to the town of DeFuniak Springs for a ride around the beautiful spring-fed DeFuniak Lake which is surrounded by parkland and many stately, historic homes and other buildings. The wind was not our enemy today so the ride went by rather uneventfully (except for the rescue of a baby goat trapped in a fence by our retired fire fighter). We had a lovely lunch in a jewellery store & cafe in the the town of Chipley followed by a visit to a DQ once in our destination town. Continuing with yesterday's "Florida ain't flat" theme, we climbed (and lost) about 2500 feet. No more 90 mile days...... woo hoo!!