Left the Oxford Downs yesterday around 5 PM yesterday after the storm abated, my session was not a profitable one due largely to a spectacular 3 barrel bluff fail for vs an older gents flopped top 2 who snap called my $300 river shove after 75 flop 160 turn.
One guy was tilted enough to call me a ****ing ******, couldn't get into the Big O game but it was full so wasn't getting shut out at least.
Rode to the Rodeway Inn in lovely Leesburg Fl 14 miles south of the downs which took me through one of the largest retirement communities in America The Villages. Some pretty baller homes nice golf cart multi use trails and overall good infrastructure/roads in Lake County overall maybe due to the nice tax base.
The Hotel stay was very needed after our stealth camping debacle the night before, rolled out right around 7 am and crushed the mileage to Orlando arriving before the scheduled 1pm start time and as of 3:40 PM we still haven't played a game but that's polo probably will get started within the hour.
Here is a the route I took, deviated slightly once I got into Orlando, overall a great ride with the highlight being the Lake Apopka Trail which lasted a good 15 miles and at one point was blocked by two 12ft plus gators. They ran off as I cautiously approached on my bike, saw lots of wildlife Raptors, wading birds, turtles. At one point Lake Apopka was considered a dead lake from all the contamination and didnt support much life but it has recovered well it seems.
The wind was whipping off the lake for parts of the ride mostly in my favor, crossed a section that was closed and being worked on the guys running the bulldozers and earth moving equipment let me pass without objections.
Got to the end and found a locked gate with barbed wire fencing so had to unpack and remove the trailer passing everything through the narrow gap as I was halfway through a park service guy rolled up asking If I had seen the trail closed signs.
Thankfully he didnt make me back track even helping with the remaining items, from there it was a fast paced race through the suburbs even leapfrogged a pack of 3 road bike riders.
There are a variety of bike people here not just polo players, a guy doing some seriously impressive freestyle bmx tricks including 180's over the tennis net. Some other fixed gear riders showing off and this guy who rode from Cairo to Capetown with 2 other guys in a ride sponsored by Cinelli.
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