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Yes they have sushi, yes “bikers welcome.”

Tasks Accomplished:
1) SunPass tag registered for tolls. Instead of blowing thru auto pay lanes and getting a ticket based on my license plate, Florida debits my account.

2) Tires ordered and on their way to California to be installed before departure to Mexico.

3) confirmation with Florida Keys campground that reservation not needed.

4) hailed on in Titusville, Florida. it’s a VERY touristy (yick) place that used to depend on NASAs Cape Canaveral and shuttle launches. Now without those there’s not much. It’s an attraction-driven area without their attraction.

5) cigars purchased from Corona Cigar in Orlando. Awesome place, I spent an hour sitting out front. An amazingly hot blonde waitress brought me coffee to my table.. It was $3 for a cup. So worth it though, good coffee great place.

The sameness motel rooms may have taken their toll. If you look closely, you can see the screws holding it to the wall.

From the Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, Florida

So I’m in Skynyrds Sports Bar in South Carolina because:

A) I spent the day riding thru goddamned THUNDERSTORMS (not just “rain” actual goddamned road-flooding thunderstorms compete with lightening)

B) it’s within staggering distance of Americas Best Value Inn

And the guy next to me at the bar is taking about his .50 cal PISTOL that had no functional value it’s just something to have, like a Ferrarri (we agree on this point)

Now the key is, when travelling, is to NEVER show fear to the locals because they live for that shit.

The guy next to you at the bar says he has an AK47 in his home weapons collection (ska armory)? You ask, “but it wouldn’t take much to convert it to full auto, right? It’s politics not mechanical?” at which point he agrees and smiles (the SOB converted it to full auto and won’t admit it).

We’re in a perilous situation where the bartender has established ground rules of doing drive-bys of the bar and – without asking – putting out a fresh bottle once mine gets low.

I’ve emptied their Fosters stockpile and they’re enabling what can best be described as an addictive personality with limited impulse control.

After the Pepsi washed swill of North Carolina this is a welcome – yet dangerous – change of situation.

Even conversations on the perils of being pregnant in the summer don’t deter the fun being had. I mean seriously -I point out – I’d rather be pregnant in the WiNTER down here where its so friggin hot in the summer

Needless to say, I’m going to probably stay another day and visit Charleston

Who knew?

I’ve learned an extraordinary amount of information about bowfishimg alligator in this South Carolina bar.

The key detail apparently is to shoot or stab the sonsabitches because the arrow does not – NOT – kill them.

Typhoid vaccine: THATS the one I got (I note this here should it ever become a medically relevant question). I keep getting it confused with Cholera, which I did NOT get.

MORE interestingly, if you get the yellow fever vaccine, you are given a record of immunization card that is apparently honored around the world. In a rare nod to global solidarity, this card is.. yellow so that all who may see it will know.

Unsurprisingly, the Walgreens in Dillon, South Carolina does NOT – in fact – stock yellow fever vaccine regardless of their websites claims about being a vaccine source. A quick discussion with the pharmacist (who googled it, I think) confirmed no possible side effects that could impact driving (ie make me crash), other than death (which I don’t think can be considered as posing a RISK of crashing).

Do I need or necessarily want the yellow fever vaccine? No. Do I WANT the yellow fever vaccination card?

OH..
HELL..
YEAH!

If it’s a toss up between the sticker from the Smoke Jumpers Visitors Center in Montana or the yellow yellow fever vaccination card? Well, let’s just say I’m happy I don’t need to make THAT particular choice.

The real skill comes in with baked bread products and fresh fruits.