Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Close to Home

With my new, much, much lower budget, I will have to pick and choose my camping opportunities and have opted to ride close to home most of the time.

My daughter Jenny, my good friends Cathy and Shelly and I went on a ride two weekends ago that was a lot of fun.  We parked at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center, but instead of riding the trails there (they were having an ACTHA event) we crossed SR 228 and rode around on the old Cecil Field Naval Base.  It's now called Cecil Commerce Center and boasts a runway that the Space Shuttles could land on as a backup.  Since there weren't any signs that said "no horses", we took a tour of the perimeter of the golf course, down thru the main street, and ended up at a lake and picnic area.  That was after cruising by the Golf Course Club House where they were having a "Redneck Golf Tournament".  We asked if we could buy a beer, and a couple of good ole boys handed us some cold ones out of their coolers.  :-)

Shelly with a concoction that Cathy made for us with the golf course behind




Cruising down one of the main drags