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Published: June 18th 2009
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More public humiliation. My apologies but it is once again time for each and every one of you to start enduring the travel blog again. After 4 months in the Tampa area, we finally left and are in St. Augustine, FL. It's claim to fame is being the oldest city in the U.S. originally settled in 1565 give or take. It was a three and a half hour drive up here from Tampa and it is on the east coast just south of Jacksonville. We are at an RV park right off highway 95. It is basic but nice and clean. I do believe we have stayed in Florida a tad too long because it is getting very hot and muggy.
Last night the thunderstorms were so severe that we thought about abandoning ship, but that would make no sense because we would be sitting outside in massive downpours and lightening striking all around. The strikes were so loud and so close it sometimes shook the motor home. The cats did not care for this action at all. As a retired pilot I do not miss flying thunderstorms one bit but it appears that I will just always be dealing with them
Cage
They put you in here and hoisted you up high for all to see. People threw fruit and garbage at you as they went by for 24 hours nonstop. one way or another.
We woke up and went to town this morning. It is indeed a bunch of history. In general we like to take a tour of a place to get a general outline and then decide what to go look at in detail from there. Well crap, it is hard to pick, so today was a whirlwind of activity doing it all in a hair on fire scenario that would make a Chinese firedrill look a little dull. I don't normally like doing it that way but I want to get further north where the humidity is only 90% instead of 110% There are tornado warnings out now too. Actually I don't mind it too much, I am just ready to move it along after that much time parked. Of course tornados and motor homes, trailers and basically anything short of a castle don't mix all that well anyway.
It has been well worth the stop. First it was the Old Jail where criminals were treated as they should be rather than how they are now which is basically the worlds best retirement system. Next it was the Oldest School House where kids were treated
Marilyn
That is the gallows in back of her. as they should have been rather than how they are now which is spoiled rotten with out the capability of adding two plus two or being able to construct a sentence. Not to mention spelling big words like "cat". Anyway, I won't get started on that right now. After that there is the Old Light House. Everything is titled "Old" here because it is old. It was built in 1872 or so. Very sturdy and still a working light house having survived numerous hurricanes, lightning strikes and a kid with a rifle that shot the light out with his dad's thirty ought six at the age of fifteen. Bit of a loser and he went to the woodshed for that one. Next we went across the street to the Alligator Farm. It really isn't a farm, just a sort of zoo and where you can go if you are a homeless alligator. Then it was back across the intercoastal waterway to the Castillo de San Marcos. It is the oldest fort ever built being circa 1675 or so. It was never taken by force and is as beefy as ever. After that, we whizzed on over to the Fountain of
Dummy
He is laying there dead having just been cut down from the gallows. People rarely claimed a body because it was embarrassing. Youth which was discovered by Ponce De Leon. It was closed as of five o' clock. Now that I think about it we should have gone there first so that the day might have been a little easier on both of us.
Keep in mind here that there is a lot of other stuff to see and do here, but we weren't interested in all of it. Tons of eating establishments, museums and of course Flagler College where I tried to sneak into the girls dorm and for about the 5th time on this trip was once again arrested. Dammit. There are also numerous old churches, the oldest house, wax museums as well as the original Ripley's Believe it or not place. We did it all on the local trolley and a bus so it was pretty efficient.
We are now back at the motor home all scrubbed up and fed and watered, watching the weather channel in case I need to drive this rig on down the road in an emergency tornado maneuver of some sort.
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Becky Hunt
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albino alligator
Did you know there is an albino alligator in the new Academy of Science Building in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco as well?