Tallahassee, Florida

Wow, guess my last posting was in Smyrna, Tn., and that was two weeks ago.  We did get down to Tampa, and settled in for the winter there at Bay Bayou park for the winter.  We made it to our grandaughter's birthday party.

She was a bit over whelmed with all the excitement, birthday parties for one-year-old children should be very low key, for sure!
Labor Day week-end was good, we spent Monday at Caladesi Island and beach  with my brother Marcus and his son Adam.  The ocean temperature was about 85 degrees, which was wonderful for swimming, but is the current issue with Hurricane Irma.  The warm water is apparently fueling the hurricane.

So yesterday we joined the many Floridians trying to get out of the path of the storm.  Going through small towns on Highway 19 it was all stop and go- averaging 30 miles an hour. We moved a bit faster out in the open country sides.  Only one town let the traffic pass through red lights, and policemen were out in force waving us through.  Long lines were at every gas station, fortunately we had filled up before we left.  However, we went through our gas rapidly because of a  head wind and frequent braking. 

When we saw the two trucks pictured above, we thought the national guard was coming in.  No, it was a combining crew of some sort- John thinks the equipment was for harvesting cotton.  There were quite a few trucks and other vehicles in that convoy.  Fascinating how life goes on, and there are other issues out there besides out-running the hurricane.  Another thing which intrigued John and I were the number of motor homes and trailers going south.  Maybe they did not realize that the idea was to get out of the state!
Ironically, we saw a street yesterday with the name of "Follow Your Dream".   Maybe our dream of eventually settling down will not include Florida!   After Hurricane Harvey,  Jose may well come barreling down Florida also.  Not a good place to live right now.
We arrived outside of Tallahassee at 8PM, an rv park had one spot for us for two nights.  We need to move more westward anyway, so that was all right for us.  This morning we heard a few tales of woe from the travelers parked around us.  One couple traveled from Sarasota yesterday, and now have only one-eighth of a tank of gas left.  They have to move on today as their spot was only for one night.  I think the gas situation is a bit better here in Tallaassee.  Next posting will probably be from some place in Alabama.  Floridians stay safe!