I left Deland about 7:15 0n the 27th and was looking forward to a well planned drive and sleeping in Louisiana.
Well, the drive part worked out, but all the road and weather gods seemed to want to conspire against me. The travel temperature was somewhere between hot and just plain miserable!!!!
But along the way the gas prices were interesting...... I paid $3.35 a gallon in Florida. In Alabama the price was $3.27. In Mississippi the price was $3.17 and in Louisiana it was $3.29. I only threw that part in so that you can see what happens as I travel. I am sure as I get further out west the prices will go up some????
I finally got to Louisiana where I planned to spend the night in a rest area on the ATCHAFALAYA River but not knowing that the river is actually a SWAMP!!!!!!!!!!! WELL!!!!! I got out to go brush my teeth and was promptly surrounded by some of the biggest swamp skeeters I have seen. I have not seen anything like these big boys since down at a state park in Hobe Sound, Fl. and a couple other places. These boys were so hungry that they did not even argue about who got what, they just picked a spot and started munching!!!!!!! so after a short pause to take care of a couple of things I jumped back in the truck and headed for plan B.
So I out ran the skeeters, got a few hours sleep and woke up on I-49 somewhere between Opelousas and Alexandria Louisiana. It is now about 7:45 am where I am at and hopefully I will be in Oklahoma this afternoon where I can take a SHOWER!!!!!!!!!!
I just wanna know am I having fun yet????????
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