Keeeeeeeeeey Weeeeeeeeest

I completed my first 300+ mile day. Leaving Jacksonville at 7, I made it to Daytona for the 600 mile checkup at 9:15. Fortunately my dad was hanging out on the boat so I had a place to catch up on some lost sleep.

I hit the road for Boca at about 2. The GPS with the no highway option said I'd arrive at 6:30. I've wanted to take US1/A1A all the way south for a long time, and managed for a while. At Kennedy Space Center, I tried to see the Space Shuttle that's being moved from the assembly building to the launch pad, but was turned away by a gaurd. Who wants to take a bus from the visitors center? Plus I had a long way to go.

I topped off my gas with barely enough to make it to Boca. To speed things up (I wanted to beat the impending rain storm and sunset) I hopped on the I-95 for the next 150 miles. The only Interstate more boring than perfectly straight, no elevation change 95 that I've been on is I-70 through Kansas. I drove 100 miles nonstop, a first, took a break at a pull off, and hopped back on 95. I could see the storm the weatherman predicted building on the horizon. Could I make it to Rett's without getting wet? I haven't tested the GoreTex lining in my motorcycle outfit but I'm in no hurry to get soaked.

So with one bar on the gas gauge above "the light" and a front moving in ahead I kept going. I figured out that I had just programmed downtown Boca Raton in instead of Rett's house when I drove by his exit. I took the next one and headed towards the ocean. The "light" hadn't come on, so I topped off my gas and followed the road that I hadn't been on since I came with my Graph Theory class from CC. I made it dry and without running out of gas, a success.