The rain did clear up, but only temporarily. I finished making myself a sandwich just as the rain was letting up. It looked like the coast was clear, but I decided to wait a few minutes. I saw a bolt of lightning coming from the direction I just was. I didn’t think much of it, but subconsiously I knew it was something. Not ten minutes later it started pouring cats and dogs, harder than before. I’m guessing I was either in the eye or a whole in the storm. I pulled out my sleeping pad and started to nap while I let the storm pass.

Two and a half hours later, its still at it and getting dark. So it looks like its a short day for me today. I pulled out my bivvie sack and got ready for bed. I still need to use the bivvie sack, even though i’m in this barn because all the sides are open and there’s a number of holes in the roof. Besides with the rain its cooled off a lot and it will provide the right amount of heat for a night like tonight.

Before I laid down for this nap, I took a look at the maps. There’s about 315 miles left in this section, which will get me to Ormand Beach, FL. From there is about another 150 miles to Disney World. That’s about the closest it gets to Orlando. At 90 miles a day, that should take a little more than five days which would put me there on Thursday. Add in a few more half days for rain and other unexpected delays and i’m there on Saturday, which would still leave me two days to hang out before needing to start driving home. So making it to Orlando is looking good.

Go away, come again another day.

I actually don’t mind the rain here all that much. I rode through it earlier today. Its so warm out down here that as soon as its done raining everything is dry again in 10 minutes. The only bad part about it, is all of the rain water evaporating off of the roads makes the air kind of humid and hard to breath.

Just now it started to rain again. It looked it was going to be a bit harder and last longer than before, so I pulled over into a barn on thee of the road. I only intended to stay long enough to put my tarp over my gear, but as I was doing that, I heard some thunder.

I waited a few minutes, and sure enought, I was right in the thick of it. I figured I’d use this time to call a few friends or to start calling places about car rentals, but Murphey’s Law prevailed, and I had no service.

Alls well though, this is just another storm I’ll have to add to my list that I’ve had shelter for. It looks like it should be clearing up almost as fast as it came so hopefully ill be out of here soon.

I got to thinking of how many hits this site gets, and was curious to see who was reading. I know I can find out some info based on the IP addresses, but I figured asking would be just as easy.

So if your reading this, comment on here just to say hi. You can do so by clicking the link below which says ‘X comments’ and then filling out the form on the right hand side of that next page. You don’t need to make and account or anything, just click other and put in your name, or you could click anonymous and just make sure to leave your name in the post.

I know some of you have posted before just to say hi, but do it again here anyways. And if you’ve been reading for a while and never posted, stop being a lurker.

If you want, you could also post what state/country your reading from. I know there are a few people in some really cool spots reading occasionally (like Mud, from Japan).

Edit: I’m putting this post at a date in the future a week so that it stays on top for a bit. Check for new posts below this for a while.