Day 17 started out ambitiously enough.  I intended to ride from the Thomas house in Ormond Beach to the SW Florida city of Bonita Springs.  It was a fairly long ride, but plenty do-able.  Per my desire to stay off the interstate system as much as possible on this yearlong journey...in favor of the less traveled highways and back-roads...I rolled through quite a few small towns with quite a bunch of changes in speed limits.  I grew road weary earlier than normal!  Soon I found myself calling Linda and Denis in Bonita Springs to let them know I would not arrive at their home until the following day.  After the call, I located a wifi hotspot and pulled up hotwire.com to find a hotel room for the night.

I then spent part of my evening looking at pictures I shot around the Ormond Beach area.  I was already nostalgic for the area, but knew I'd return to basically the same destination within a week.  The pictures below are a few more I shot while touring the area around the Ormond and Flagler Beach area.