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Trans America Cycling Day 46 - Madison, FL to High Springs, FL

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The link to today's route and statistics is found here . Even though today’s ride was long at 78 miles, it was not too taxing.  The cloud cover and trees along the route helped kept us cool, and this part of Florida is quite flat. The Suwannee River referred to in the photos below is the same river made famous by Stephen Foster in his 1851 (antebellum era about ten years before the start of the American Civil War) minstrel song  title “Way Down Upon the Suwannee River,” also known as “Old Folks at Home.”  Foster eliminated the “u” from Suwannee on purpose, because he thought that people would mispronounce it.  The song was the best-selling sheet music of its time, and it is the official state song of Florida.  Pretty impressive for a river that starts in the Okefenokee Swamp of southern Georgia and drains into the Gulf of Mexico.  The song is on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_U61dDdY-c Suwannee River Kayaking on the Suwannee