Spring Break 2022 Bike Tour Day 8 - Americus to Warm Springs

Debra has rejoined us, so first thing Max has to share with her his newfound love of the Southern Buffet. This is at the Bullock House in Warm Springs, GA.

At dinner we were discussing how bad the rain was yesterday, and Max said he took a selfie during the rain storm.



Debra: "DID YOU TAKE A SELFIE WHILE YOU WERE RIDING YOUR BIKE THAT IS NOT SAFE!"
me: "OMG THAT IS A GREAT PICTURE SEND IT TO ME!"

It was a pretty tough ride today. 73 miles, 2800 feet of climb, no tailwinds, some headwind. On the other hand, the temperature was perfect, it was sunny all day except for a bit of drizzle in the morning, and rural Georgia is beautiful. We did two lane back roads all day. There was very little traffic on Saturday morning.

The Motel 6 from last night was pretty horrible. There was no coffee in the room. The lobby was closed (which may be a Georgia COVID thing) and so there was no coffee in the lobby. So this morning there was no coffee. I packed up the bike, without any coffee, and we rode a half mile up the road to the 3 Squares Diner, where we had breakfast. And I got some coffee.

It's a good thing we had a hearty breakfast, because there was not another restaurant for 55 miles. We had a snack at a gas station at 26 miles, and we thought there was a restaurant at 47 miles but it was out of business. So lunch didn't happen until after 2:00.

The upside was lunch was fantastic. We ate at Big Chic in Talbotton.



It doesn't look like much on the outside, or on the inside, but look at this yummy fried chicken and the mountain of fried okra!



So even though the last 20 miles had more and bigger hills, and our route turned west into the wind, we finished strong and happy. We were done just after 5.



We are staying at the Meriwether Country Inn in Warm Springs, which is a quaint historic town where FDR used to go to enjoy the springs to make his polio feel better. The motel is an excellent RDOQ low budget motel. It's clean, everything works, and there is coffee. It cost the same as the disgraceful Motel 6 last night, which had no coffee.

I decided the T-Bone makes great bike art in our room, so I took a picture.

Here is the Strava track.