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Blogging And Dodging My Way Up Florida
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Blogging And Dodging My Way Up Florida Ugh! I do hate driving. Especially in Florida. Which is why I am writing this as I cruise along I-95 at 70mph heading north into Jacksonville. Why drive when I have a who can do it (almost) as good as me!  Florida sorta sucks as a state to drive through since most of it looks the same. It's flat. All level-like. It doesn't deviate. You look out the window at any point, wait a hundred miles or so, then look again. There's no difference. Ya might as well not have moved at all if you use the scenery as an indication of possible relocation. Then there's the drivers. They are either very slow or else tearing down the highway with flames under their wheels. Gawd help ya if get behind some gomer hauling stuff with trailer in tow. I was behind the wheel (for a short stint), near W. Palm Beach when this largish truck with a giant spool of wire in the back came flying by, and cut in front of me.  I eased off to give us some breathing space when suddenly a flash in the sun warned me that debris was leaving the truck and heading my way! It was a 5 gallon bucket banging and bouncing its way towards me! I had two seconds to react, and avoided the dang thing by a foot or two. I watched in my mirror as vehicles began changing lanes behind me in a mad effort to avoid hitting the thing. Nobody crashed that I could see, but some poor schmuck is calling his insurance company today, I'll wager. I sped up to pass the oblivious idiot who caused it all by not securing his trailer contents properly, (he's too dangerous to trail), and as I looked over to get a gander at him I found I couldn't see through the tinted windows on his truck. It was then that I thought I should get his plate number just in case, but passed. That would put me in his wake once more.  Well, we're hungry again. Now to find a nice diner so we can grease out, under the towering pines of Georgia... (yay! some variation in the landscape!) blog on! |
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Thanx, Kitty! And welcome to The Venting Blog! It's a fun place on occasion!  blog on!
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Have a great trip Keith...and keep yours eyes peeled, lotsa idiots out there who call themselves drivers...but I guess you knew that already! LT
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Happy Holidays, Keith!
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Thank you, interested! I wish you the same, my esteemed and long-time colleague in blogging! It is good to have you here in The Venting Blog once again! blog on!
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Have a great trip Keith...and keep yours eyes peeled, lotsa idiots out there who call themselves drivers...but I guess you knew that already! LT blog on!
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Thank you, Ariel. I wish the same for you. Also, welcome to The Venting Blog! blog on!
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Once when I was driving near the SF airport, a small chunk of metal hit my bumper. It dropped out of the sky, probably from a plane above me. It put a royal big chunk in the bumper. If it had hit my window, it would probably have killed me. There was no one to report to and cost 900.00 for a new bumper. Geez....the angels must have been working that day.... Unfortunate that the angel guarding your car was on a break at the time.  blog on!
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Dang, I would have loved to stop in, Playn. I obviously need to plan these trips better.  blog on!
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Kansas is as boring as Florida, only sideways. Yeah, I'm still [blog 1hotwahine]
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Whaddaya mean, "the same view wise"? You crossed over the fall line from the Piedmont to the sand hills. Lotsa variation there (compared to Florida, anyway).  Gotta love those insurance adjusters. Scrooges all.  blog on!
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I'm always ok when I find you here in The Venting Blog, Barbiebunzysweetiepiesugarplumalicious
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Tala, old friend, that is one of my greatest ambitions derived from this blogging thing we do. I would very much like to do that tour with you, mate! blog on!
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Kansas is as boring as Florida, only sideways.
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Hello GingerLily, welcome to The Venting Blog! I can imagine a few of those theories as well, I'm sure. Thanks for stopping in, and blog on!
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