Driving along the Gulf coast all day

Up up UP a high bridge, over a lot of water, down down DOWN that same high bridge. Time and again. Lots of small communities, a few of which I would feel totally at home in. Even the heat is okay.

This is the kind of country I love. Coastal communities, the influence of the sea in everything around you.

Staying the night at a truly awful KOA camp8ing, tomorrow I'll be going to the nearby State Park. The State Park I camped at last night was magical. Deer and white squirrels abounded, I woke up to a kind of Disney world. Sigh. I hope this state park will be as good. It certainly cannot be worse than this KOA...

I'm near Sopchoppy

Sitting in the Ochlockonee River State Park, tent set up, fire crackling, watching the huge sadistic deer-flies on the deer who are just wandering through my campsite a la Bambi. Squirrels are performing aerial aerobics, all one can hear are the gentle sounds of nature and the beep of wireless Internet.

Ahhh.
(in the old days I would smoke. this is a definite improvement )

I'm told they have white squirrels here, but I've not seen one yet. Just many gray ones.

i went for a lovely walk and am drenched in sweat. Geez but it's HOT out here!