Monday October 3rd 2016

I got underway toward the east about ten this morning. I traveled about 300 miles across Florida and still have a little over 100 to go. I’ve stopped for a couple of nights at the Lake City Campground in, you guessed it, Lake City Florida.

My st.op for a couple of nights

When I left this morning, hurricane Matthew was projected to stay in the Atlantic east of Florida. This evening the east side of the Florida peninsula is in the projected path. I’m going to stay here until Wednesday. Hopefully the forecast path of the storm will be known by then. I will either turn north into Georgia on I-75 or reverse direction toward Tallahassee if the storm is still heading for the east coast of Florida. The minimal hurricane or tropical storm Hermine at the beginning of September was bad enough. I don’t want to be near at category 2 of 3 hurricane.

The trip across the top of Florida is long. The terrain is very hilly and the area is heavily forested. It continues to remind me more of other parts of the country than the Florida I am familiar with. I played a lot of hopscotch with the trucks today. I run the cruise control at 64 or 65 mph which is slower than the trucks want to travel, but on the hills I can maintain speed and they can’t. It requires a little more attention when I’m side by side with one of the trucks. I don’t want to get sucked to close.

One good thing about the trip east is that I’m back in the eastern time zone. The central time zone was keeping me confused. I only manually changed a few of my clocks and a couple of devices changed automatically. That combined with TV prime time being an hour earlier really kept me guessing. When I looked at a time display, I had to know if the clock was changed before I had a clue what time it was. If I hadn’t known I was returning to the eastern time zone I would have made an effort to make sure all 12 plus time display devices were set to the same time zone.