Marianna to Quincy FLORIDA

Today we cycled out of Marianna to Quincy, Florida (55 miles).   Marianna is a small town that has a junior college called CHIPOLA.   Chipola is where my son Tony went to school, in 1977, for two years on a baseball scholarship.   It is a town with all the usual fast food restaurants and strip malls.   The thing that surprised me the most was the fact that there were no bicycle lanes, and it´s a college town.   It was very difficult getting to our hotel on the busy city streets.  Quincy, Florida is also a small southern town with HUGE southern mansions.   We stopped and had lunch at Miss Helen´s restaurant. The owner told us that these millionaires made their money on Coca Cola stock.  As the story goes, many of the residents were offered stock options when the plant opened here many years ago.   The ones that bought the stock are now the millionaries living in the BIG WHITE MANSIONS.