April 2: St. Augustine, FL

  
      Although we dipped our wheels in the Atlantic in Jacksonville, we hung up the helmets (temporarily!) in St. Augustine. We spent a day exploring the oldest city in America. We visited the Castillo De San Marco, an old Spanish Fort build in 1672, and watched reenactors load and fire a cannon (minus the cannonball) across the bay. We tried to imagine what life must have been like when the entire population of St. Augustine (sometimes up to 1500 people + livestock!) crammed into the Castillo, or "Castle" during times of siege.
     We walked through the historical district and saw massive poured-concrete hotels built in the late 1800's to attract the rich and famous. St. Augustine has long been a city driven by tourists.We sat alongside the Atlantic Ocean and watched sailboats pass under the Bridge of Lions. Already our adventure seems a lifetime ago... But already, I find myself thinking: Where to next?