Defuniak Springs
Another great day and time to explore. This time I am heading north to Defuniak Springs, FL. This is an interesting town since there is a perfect circle of a lake right in the middle of the city. Great walking path around the lake. The road that circles the lake has quite a number of beautiful historic homes as well. Overall, just a cool place to stop and eat lunch.
Some images from the Circle Drive - This road has over 40 homes in the historic register!
The ride itself is pretty easy. From my brothers house, took 98W to 79N to 20W to 331N. But who likes simple. I jumped off these main roads (when possible) and took the back roads. What a nice ride with some really nice twisties thorough forests and shaded runs with very few cars. Unfortunately this area does not have a ton of dirt/gravel roads. One road I took USED to be dirt but has paved recently.
While riding up there, I passed a really cool bar called The Hideout. I made a mental note to make sure and stop on the ride back. My goal was to find the Trackside Bar and Grill. I did find it but it was closed (it opened at 3). I was not going to sit around and wait so I found the Last Stop Brew Vault for a beer. I also stopped and had a quick snack on one of they many picnic tables around the lake. Overall this town was worth ride up here.
When going back, I tried to avoid the same route. Again, found a few really cool roads but again, wanted to make sure I passed that bar I saw earlier since there was a TON of bikes and live music. I did find it and stopped. Talked to another adventure bike rider for over an hour. The band quit playing about 4 so I left shortly thereafter.
The rest of the ride was local highways so nothing exciting EXCEPT for Hwy 79. Stick to the speed limits as there are a TON of police.