Day 10 - Ft Walton Beach FL 2,453 miles

  Hello Friends, I finally made my next destination, Ft Walton Beach, FL!  But to get there, I woke up in Jackson MS with a sore throat and coughing.  Slept with the room warm and that seemed to help . . . but enough about me!  Wait, that's what this blog is about . . .  ;-)

  The day started great with me being hungry, and I'm in the south, and they have my favorite place on EARTH . . 

  Yes friends, Krystal Hamburgers . . I'm living right when I can have a Krystals.  Here is a little tease for you:

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Yes friends, Heaven on a bum, right here on Earth!  For those of you that have not tried these little bombs of JOY, they are like a While Castle, only better ;-)  After filling my belly, filling the bike, and scrubbing a thouysand bugs off the windscreen, I hit the road across Mississippi.  Straight into the storms:

Wet Roads

Big storm clouds ahead and on a bike you know your'e going to get wet

Getting darker

   Then it hits!  I had to hunder down, run about 45-50, road slippery, but being a desert rat from Vegas, it was warm and felt great after the sweltering humidity AND it cleaned the bugs off the windscreen . .   The cup was half full, right?  I couldn't really get a picture of the worst part because it was just too dangerous to let go of the handlebars to snap a picture.  This shot was as it started slowing down, but trust me it was a gusher!!!

   Then the sky blued up and I had a great ride across MS and Alabama (Mobile) and into Florida!

Big grass farms that they sell to truf your lawn

  This ain't Vegas, Todo . . .  The streets have actual Spanish Moss and looked like tunnels.  Cool!!!

   Then I started hitting bridges and water with a beautiful sky . . .

Water water everywhere, said the desert boy!

   OK, a little fast, I know that's what you looked at first . . .  THE WATER!!! That's my point on the GPS.  This is the GPS shot and this was the real shot:

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  Pretty Cool drive :-)

  Got to Nick's Apt first (Sammi's intended) (A young Marine fly boy in Helo training at Whitting Field)

  Up and down a narrow street ;-)

  They took me to eat and a great Rib place where we chowed down till we couldn't hardly walk out of there.  Nick had a big test and check ride today, so Sammi and I left for her place to let him study and get some rest.

   She lives about 40 min away in Crestview FL. down I-10 East.  Not a bad drive at all.  She showed me her new Apartment, a thousand times better than that getto place she lived before, and much safer area.  About a 20-30 min drive to Eglin AFB, but I like this place a lot better.

   Neither of us lasted very long after we unloaded the bike and put the cover over it.  She has a great big, long, couch that fit me JUST right.  I was asleep in about 30 seconds and didn't wake up for nothing all night except when Sammi left for work about 8am.  Promptly went back to sleep . . .  Ahh vacation :-) 

Well friends, That's Day 10 - 2,453 miles down this road I'm on . . .  It's all good!

LUKE  Out!