Day 1 2/12/2005 93 miles

I left Savannah around 9.30am. Boy, today was way too adventurous for me! I went through Register (Register has a population of 164). My directions list a grocery store...it's a gas station that had pizzas and no deli meats.. The attendant was super nice, but didn't mentally boost any kind of confidence in me. She was worried for me about the neighborhood I was about to go thru. She let me know there was no food or motel, here or the direction I was heading (this is at 3.30pm...and i'm already looking for a place to stay). The start of the day was simply: awesome. On 21 in Garden City, a tractor trailer intentionally forced me off the road into a fire lane. I caught him at the light and banged on his passenger door: "What you come Here banging on my door!". I explained that the shoulder was a fire lane and it has divets (the kind that keep cars out) and I couldn't ride my bike on the shoulder..."well it takes me over 300 feet to stop this thing", I said, "I know, I drive trucks, and it's just as scary for me to ride my bike". He seemed to understand. So just to let anyone that ever reads this...A bicycle is considered a vehicle. That means bicycles must obey all laws a vehicle has to endure. You as a car operator cannot pass a bicycle unless it is safe for the both of you. The only time a bicycle is allowed to use sidewalks and pedestrian ways is if they are walking their bike.

Somehow I arrived in Reidsville around 6pm, before it got dark. I am staying at Gordonia Alatamaha State Park, The State of Georgia charged me $16 to sleep on the ground; however, there are hot showers and coin laundry. There are only about 5 other visitors, and all are RVs. I ate at a family restaurant tonite (Smith's Family Rest.)...I haven't been eating much this last week. This turned out to be my only meal of the day- I'm not my normal hog self. I even passed on the DQ in Reidsville. I hope tomorrow is more simplistic.