Twas a cold, bouncy night but generally slept ok – felt like I was on the high seas with the half inflated mattress.

The morning is cold and rainy. I am up early and on the computer trying to close out company and CIBC deals. By the time it’s 9:30 am I am so cold my hands are shaking and I can do no more anyway. I have decided to try and repair the thermarest with bike tube repair kit – I’ll drive to Tallahassee to the closest bike shop about half an hour away. It’s gonna take me that long with the car seat heaters and inside heaters just to warm up anyway.

I take the scenic route through Havana and back roads to the golf course. Very nice, much more farmland this way. Around Quincy and southwest it is pretty much brush and cattle. At first I wasn’t sure I would golf the weather has been so suspect but it’s eighteen friggin’ dollars so why not? Course is actually busy, I think it is men’s day but I get out and around and play either well or crap, nothing in between. I like this course tho.

Back at Flat Creek I have neighbours! Never thought I’d see other campers but waddya know? Haven’t seen them yet though.

Apparently there is a waterfall on one of the trails into the back 40 so I go looking, don’t have time for a bike ride after checking in to CIBC one more time. I eventually find it but is so small I don’t even bother with a picture. Nice walk tho and I bushwalk it through the woods back to the campground.

Patch the thermarest but don’t know yet if it will hold. I have about 50/50 luck with these patch kits.

Dinner time now and looks like I have to upgrade our AT&T data again as I seem to have burned through it with all my CIBC work.

Last night in Flat Creek and though it is dark it is also too early for bed and too cold to stand around. I decide to take a walk across the road to investigate the Big Bend Jai Alai building – a massive structure that is clearly abandoned. I had forgotten that Jai Alai used to be a big thing in Floriday but this huge structure in the middle of nowhere is certainly a curiosity.

I hop the fence with my headlamp and hope there are no dogs – thankfully I am not attacked. I walk around the building where there are mountains of timbers piled – must be hundreds of thousands of them. I find out later they are timber-sets (I think that’s what they said) – they are used to create temporary roads through swampy ground.

Inside the building is uber spooky. Every window broken, everything smashed, papers everywhere but it is fascinating. Also hoping there are no squatters inside – it is clear that people have camped here but no sign of anyone now. Later I find out there might be snakes, might be bats but all I see from a wildlife standpoint is pigeons.

Pictures below are actually from Saturday when I returned in the daylight, talked to the timber guys and explored again to take the pics. Not sure why I didn’t tonight.

Quite an interesting story – see Big Bend Jai Alai Fronton – Chattahoochee, Florida – Atlas Obscura