DOWN......BUTT NOT OUT!

DAY 10

589 Miles

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Florida City, FL to Tallahassee, FL through Homestead, Ft Myers, Tampa Bay and Gainesville, FL

 

 

Webster's Definition:  Buttock/butek/ n. 1. gluteus maximus, backside, behind, bottom, rear, derriere, butt, fanny, can, keister, bum, seat, posterior, rump, hindquarters.

Monkey Butt: Ouch! Ooo! Eee!

Monkey Butt Head: Itch, scratch, itch, scratch




Anti-Monkey Butt Powder and Sheep Skin

Gel Pads and Mole Skin have not been adequate in the Florida heat for our bad case of Monkey Butt!

FUNNIEST STORY OF THE DAY
See Dad - See Dad looking sloppy - See Dad's shirt untucked - See Dad's pajama bottoms tucked in socks - See Dad out in public leaving a trail of Monkey Butt Power wherever he goes.....read on.....

Dad was complaining of his sore and miserable fever blisters on his gluteus maximus. So Son suggest that he just put the Monkey Butt Powder down in his pajama pants right there at the gas station. "Nobody is gonna look" he said. Away they go on the freeway with a white cloud of Monkey Butt Powder flying all over the place; up in the helmet, on the speed odometer, out the back just like exhaust. "Poof!"   

589 Miles from Florida City to the Capitol city of Florida. Much better day today. We are still pumped about our trip All Around The USA - We are HALF WAY.  It has taken us forever to work our way around the state of Florida. We are officially heading West - Highway 10 West here we come. Lookout Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.....we hope by Thursday.

PEOPLE WE MEET

Meet Richard Wolf. We met him and his friend in the parking lot of the Quality Inn in Tallahassee. They took a picture of us and asked for the address to this Blog. Richard gave us permission to post our photo of him today. Any one who wants to take our picture and read our blog is one of our new friends. 

 

THE EVERGLADES

GATORS, GATORS AND MORE GATORS

Highway 41 is known as Alligator Alley. It leads right through the Florida Everglades. Every road and every pond and every lake has a 3 foot high wire fence around it (to keep the gators off the road). One time we ran into a 10 foot high wire fence with barbed wire on the top and signs that read, "BLACK PANTHER CROSSING" Yikes! We looked in every tree and every bush......not to see one but to look out for one!

Just Kidding - This is a photo off the Internet

WILDLIFE FOR THE DAY

 25 alligators (alive and ducking from the camera)

 3 armadillos (squished)

 1 Osprey

 7 Turkey Vultures (waiting for road kill)

 Several unrecognizable squishes

  



Look close for the eyes

 

UPDATES:

DAD is toggling between the Book of Mormon and The Statler Brothers. Even he is getting tired of The Statler Brothers.  He hits the wall and then regenerates the next day and turns on "How Great Thou Art" and "Flowers On The Wall". 

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

Thanks for your prayers - We feel safe - Other drivers are giving us safe passage. It helps to have a bright Yellow and bright Turquoise motocycle but we still drive like we are invisible to others and that way we are always on the lookout for someone that doesn't see us coming. 

 

FOODS

Gritts but no shrimp