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Budget Cycling On The Back Roads Of Florida

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel,  September, 1998  by Herb Hiller

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This is a different Florida, of farm-to-market roads, rural as a patchwork quilt, where the Hallelujah farm & Tractor Service sits between two churches and herds of cows stand still as logos on milk jugs.

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The forest rises high and dark. Early sun fractures the cold. The ride is an off-road cyclist's dream, a trail the scant width of a lone rider, trimmed more than cut through the woods, visible only by markers and hunch. It emerges, after an interlude of almost effortless pedaling, at a river of whitewater rapids. This is a different Florida, a place where frost glistens on winter mornings and the Sunshine State seems as distant as a northern airport. Hundreds of miles of the woodland trails I've just described trace the Suwannee River Valley. It's a north Florida region of farm-to-market roads, rural as a patchwork quilt, where the Hallelujah Farm & Tractor ...