Sunday August 13th 2023

Today was yet another hot day. Outside activity had to be done carefully or for short periods of time. The temperature climbed just short of 100 degrees. The humidity wasn’t too bad, but there wasn’t any wind until late in the day. The chance of rain goes up over the next few days. Toward the middle of the week the high temperatures return to the normal level.

Traffic on the roads today was heavy. I was out looking for places to enjoy nature without having to venture too far from the air conditioned comfort of my car. It wasn’t a very successful outing. I managed to watch one Great Egret forage for food for a few minutes and a bunch of Canadian Geese peck around. The geese at my RV park are easier to watch and more entertaining in my opinion.

My travels also found me in the middle of downtown Jacksonville at the intersection of Interstate 95 and Interstate 10. That is one confusing intersection. It seems to be possible to go south on Interstate 95 by taking either the left lanes or the right lanes, just not the middle ones. Trying to go south on Interstate 95 from Interstate 10 you need to exit to the left or the right just not the middle. The middle is for north bound Interstate 95. I got where I wanted to go, but don’t ask me how or why.

The intersection of I95 and I10 also gives you an idea about the size of the state of Florida. Intestate 10 arrives in the state from Alabama and ends in Jacksonville. The mile markers in Jacksonville are in the low 360s indicating the Alabama boarder is three hundred and sixty plus miles away. The Intestate 95 mile markers are in the 350s. The road entered the state from Georgia about thirty miles north and ends just south of Miami in the south. That all adds up to more then three hundred and eighty plus miles. The state is around 400 miles wide and 400 miles long not including the keys when using driving distance as your measure.