Adventure Cycling maps good? Hannibal Misouri to Destin Florida?

[me@privacy.net]

I'm kicking around idea of riding bike form Hannibal Mo
down to Destin Florida

The Adventure cycling maps cover "some" of the way
there.... Greta Rivers map set.....

Are they worth getting and using? The set is $24

[daveornee]

me@privacy.net Wrote:
> I'm kicking around idea of riding bike form Hannibal Mo
> down to Destin Florida
>
> The Adventure cycling maps cover "some" of the way
> there.... Greta Rivers map set.....
>
> Are they worth getting and using? The set is $24
I purchased used and abused the Great (not the Greta) Rivers map set
for my trips along those parts. They are well worth the costs and well
done from a cross country touring bicyclist point of view. You will see
others along the routes just for that reason alone, I think they are
worth it.
I still ask others, especially those who are traveling oposite
direction, for any cues and clues about local conditions to look for and
look out for.
Adventure Cycling maps are quite useful for any of the routes I have
traveled.


--
daveornee

[frkrygow@gmail.com]

On Apr 23, 5:09 pm, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> I'm kicking around idea of riding bike form Hannibal Mo
> down to Destin Florida
>
> The Adventure cycling maps cover "some" of the way
> there.... Greta Rivers map set.....
>
> Are they worth getting and using? The set is $24

I've used their maps of other routes. They're not absolutely perfect
(we found a few minor errors) but they were still excellent. They
make navigating and planning much, much easier. Absolutely worth the
money.

- Frank Krygowski

[mike.a.schwab@gmail.com]

On Apr 23, 4:09*pm, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> I'm kicking around idea of riding bike form Hannibal Mo
> down to Destin Florida
>
> The Adventure cycling maps cover "some" of the way
> there.... Greta Rivers map set.....
>
> Are they worth getting and using? The set is $24

http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/greatrivers.cfm or
http://www.mississippirivertrail.org/ you could follow the Mississippi
river south until you decide to cross (by Memphis?)

http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/transamerica.cfm or
http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/southerntier.cfm to get you
east.

http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/atlanticcoast.cfm or
http://www.greenway.org/ to get down into Florida.

http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/ has plenty of previous tours.

[datakoll]

TRY THE INVOLVED STATES
each state has a bicycle program. Florida offers a package.
If you go, ask Florida for the state parks brochure
St George State Park, Grayton Beach... outstanding.
redneck riviera nightlife is interesting.

[datakoll]

try NYT. enter your search term eg Destin

http://travel.nytimes.com/gst/travel/travsearch.html?term=Mississippi+River&x=8&y=11

[datakoll]

In Fla try a canoe trip on the Blackwater, beyond category. Camp on
the rivah. There's a livery at the bridge take out.
Road's north of there are rideable including a shot at climbing Fla's
highest Mtn.
The reservoir has showers. Paths going south from that point are red
earth trod by Andrew Jackson Indian Killer. Kee p an eye out for
rattlers,scorpions and turtles.

[datakoll]

On Apr 23, 8:07*pm, datakoll <datak...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In Fla try a canoe trip on the Blackwater, beyond category. Camp on
> the rivah. There's a livery at the bridge take out.
> Road's north of there are rideable including a shot at climbing Fla's
> highest Mtn.
> The reservoir has showers. Paths going south from that point are red
> earth trod by Andrew Jackson Indian Killer. Kee p an eye out for
> rattlers,scorpions and turtles.

ooops -

http://www.google.com/search?q=blackwater+state+forest&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLJ

[Tom Sherman]

datakoll aka gene daniels wrote:
> In Fla try a canoe trip on the Blackwater, beyond category. Camp on
> the rivah. There's a livery at the bridge take out.
> Road's north of there are rideable including a shot at climbing Fla's
> highest Mtn.
> The reservoir has showers. Paths going south from that point are red
> earth trod by Andrew Jackson Indian Killer. Kee p an eye out for
> rattlers,scorpions and turtles.

No 'gators looking for meal of cycle tourist?

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

[me@privacy.net]

frkrygow@gmail.com wrote:

>I've used their maps of other routes. They're not absolutely perfect
>(we found a few minor errors) but they were still excellent. They
>make navigating and planning much, much easier. Absolutely worth the
>money.

OK thanks

Is it possible to take the co-ordinates for their maps
and input into a handlebar mount GPS?

IOW... take the maps with you..... but use a GPS as
well?

[datakoll]

Blackwater's ecology is above pure white dune sand. And the sources
are unpolluted. No gators below Kennedy Bridge that I saw. Water is
like weak red zinger tea flowing thru sand dunes under a forest
canopy- some Atlantic white cedar.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gwt/guide/regions/panhandlewest/trails/black_river.htm
the gators are in the St Johns below Lake George - check that out in
Google Earth

[datakoll]

THIS JUST IN...


April's warming temperatures typically signal the return of
lifeguards, an influx of spring-breakers and hungry, amorous
alligators sometimes looking for love in all the wrong places.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials say their
phones have been ringing more as worried residents call about
wandering gators or new additions to their backyard ponds.
"This time of year, the alligators are more active than they've been,"
said Joy Hill, commission spokeswoman. "We're approaching mating
season, the weather has gotten warmer, and they are setting up feeding
territories. We normally get more calls at this time of the year."
Two days before a Pinellas County woman came home to find an 8-foot
alligator resting on her kitchen floor, Viera resident Linda Ozzello
called to complain about a gator getting too comfortable near a paved
walking path.
The 8- or 9-foot alligator resting in the retention pond near
Ozzello's Osprey Landing home wasn't bothering anyone. But the pond
lies near a path that children take to Ralph Williams Elementary so
Ozzello and her neighbors didn't want to take a chance.
They called authorities but were surprised to learn it could be a week
before a trapper investigates.
"It really took me aback when they said it could take up to seven
days," Ozzello said. "I sure would hate to have something happen to
one of those little kids between now and when the trapper comes out."
But Hill said that is the typical response time for nonemergency
calls.
"Alligators in the kitchen are an exception. Those are calls we
respond to immediately," she said. "Other calls, where maybe an
alligator is hanging around or gets close to a walking path, would not
necessarily be emergency calls."
Hill explained that nonemergency response time includes contacting a
trapper, issuing a permit and then getting the trapper to fit the
capture into his schedule.
She also downplayed the likelihood of an attack away from the water's
edge.
"They may cross through someone's yard or across a path but it is
unlikely that gator would be there to ambush a person," she said.
Ozzello worries that in the heat of the spring gator mating season,
the reptiles could be more rambunctious.
"I just wasn't happy with the response we got, knowing what season
this is and the type of area we live in," she said.
Linda Collins with the Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program said she
has not seen a drastic increase in the number of calls to her office.
"We've seen a normal rate of increase for this time of year," she
said.
In 2006, 11,661 nuisance alligators were harvested statewide, up from
9,134 in 2005, according to the program's Web site. Alligators were
responsible for three deaths in two weeks in Gainesville, Pinellas
County and in South Florida in 2006. One person was killed last year
swimming across a canal while trying to escape police in the Miami
area.
Staff Writer James Dean contributed to this report.

[datakoll]

GPS GPS
no GPS ? using a candle for headlamps? carbide ?
uneeda GPS accepts downloads from a PC.
Then a Garmin USA Topo. Maybe get the Topo with the GPS.
try REI, Campmor, or J&R.
freind tells me Google Earth with map printouts beats Garmin
Bluecharts for sea kayaking in Baja Sea of Cortez but I'm not sure how
the Google Earth - GPS relationship works just yet.

The bicycle is so slooooow. The GPS eliminates (tends to) gross time
wasting screwups and tells you you're average on the road speed and
estimated time of arrival.

[datakoll]

On Apr 24, 11:54*am, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> frkry...@gmail.com wrote:
> >I've used their maps of other routes. *They're not absolutely perfect
> >(we found a few minor errors) but they were still excellent. *They
> >make navigating and planning much, much easier. *Absolutely worth the
> >money.
>
> OK thanks
>
> Is it possible to take the co-ordinates for their maps
> and input into a handlebar mount GPS?
>
> IOW... *take the maps with you..... but use a GPS as
> well?

get Google Earth plus and look up bicycle touring, camping, campsites,
scenic highways - in First Search, Whole Earth catalog (that may not
be the exact name) online thru your local library online database. you
should find books for the States you're considering. The Inter library
loan those books.
Find the campsites, attractions and flag those sites in Google Earth.
that's your routeing.
There's a Sierra Club Florida book that's AAA.
BTW if you go to Destin then consider going all the way to Key West.
Have you read the NYT Destin piece? groove on the pelicans.
Don't miss Panacea...

[me@privacy.net]

"mike.a.schwab@gmail.com" <mike.a.schwab@gmail.com>
wrote:

>http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/greatrivers.cfm or
>http://www.mississippirivertrail.org/ you could follow the Mississippi
>river south until you decide to cross (by Memphis?)
>
>http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/transamerica.cfm or
>http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/southerntier.cfm to get you
>east.

Yep.... I would use Miss River route down south and
then Southern Tier to go east to Destin

[datakoll]

http://www.byways.org/

[me@privacy.net]

datakoll <datakoll@yahoo.com> wrote:

>BTW if you go to Destin then consider going all the way to Key West.

don't have that much time to go that far

[datakoll]

On Apr 25, 10:10*pm, datakoll <datak...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.byways.org/

http://www.nps.gov/nr/

http://www.nr.nps.gov/