I wore raingear all day.  I needed it for the first half, was afraid to take it off for the second.  There was about five minutes of intense rain with lightning, but mostly it was just heavy rain.  Since there was nothing to see, I drove as far as I wanted to.  But I did stop at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum.

What a place!  Not only do they have a tremendous collection of old cars with excellent stories and descriptions, there are a wealth of other old and very old collections.  Children’s cars, pianos, golf clubs, outboard motors, adding machines, guns, motorcycles, boats, etc. Nearly all in very good refurbished condition.  It’s incredible.  They have two of the Batmobiles and the Batcycle.  Not to be missed is an incredible collection of jackknives.  Don’t ask me why.  Thousands of jackknives.

An 18 wheeler jackknifed on the I75 near Gainesboro, necessitating a unmapped detour.  On one country road was two handwritten signs “Watch for motorcycles”.  I didn’t know how to react to that.  Anyway, the detours were also a traffic mess. When I rejoined the 75 in Ocala, still 90 miles from Tampa, it was slow traffic recovering from the reportedly 15 mile backup, so I packed it in.  About 350 miles of forward progress, 140 miles in the rain and about 3 miles of it at 3 MPH.  Tomorrow, weather permitting, I’ll try to catch a spring season baseball game somewhere.