popeye1250
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On the way home I took Rt 10 across Missisippi, Alabama and Florida. That was about six to seven hours from Biloxi to Jacksonville, Fla then up 295 to 95 and then over on 64 then 26 to Charleston and 17 up to Myrtle Beach.
That Rt 64 from Rt 95 to Rt 26 was a scary road at 1 in the morning with lightening flashing and thundershowers so hard I had to pull over a few times. And when the lightning flashed there were these strange looking bushes that almost looked like people for a second or two on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere in the driving rain!
It's a two way rural road that goes through a lot of small towns and evidently wasn't "peaked" correctly as the water was piling up right on the space where your tires would be on the road. I was constantly hydroplaning and at a few points had to slow down to 15 mph on that 55 mph road. Or, maybe the farm trucks had pounded the road down from many years of use. When a car went by me on the opposite lane I got a wall of water right on my windshield and couldn't see and had to concentrate on looking at the traffic lines as best I could.
Rt. 10 in Fla was somewhat interesting. Lots of cattle ranches and farms and you can go quite a way before an exit, very rural. I was thinking that if I had a woman with me she'd be complaining about having to piss and telling me to go faster. lol
I had to piss bad a few times as I drank a pot of coffee at the hotel that morning but I managed to hold it until the next Shell station.
I bought a couple of powerball lottery tickets at a gas station right around the Lake City area and told the lady behind the counter that if they won she'd be getting a new Cadillac and she said that was fine with her.
I had to pull over on Rt 295 just West of Jacksonville for a rain storm, maybe the same front I hit on Rt 64? Really bad, other cars pulled over to the side of the road too, it was very sudden like a white-out of water.
I was just South of Georgetown, SC on Rt 17 at about 2 a.m. when all of a sudden a brown dog that looked like an Australian dingo ran right in front of me as I was doing 70 mph, stopped at the side of the right side of the road and started chasing the car. I was thankfull it wasn't a deer and thought to myself, "man, he won't be doing that for very long!"
I saw a couple of fresh deer carcasses on the side of the road in Georgia and Alabama obviously hit by big trucks as there were no auto parts in the road.
Gotta love those big trucks! It's nice to find one going about 10 mph over the speed limit and get behind him and let him run "interferance" for deer and cops.
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