At 9:30 my Daytona Beach friend called me to meet up at Doc's Pub & Grill in Dade City, with some of our other friends, for L.A.M.A. Day. Getting the essentials out of the way, I packed up my E-Z Jumps and ZootFresh USB Chargers and headed out.
The main roads down here are arrow straight, flat, and boring. It's the wildlife that makes things interesting. Gators, wild pigs, and today a big bird nearly took me out! It could have been a turkey on the shoulder of the road, maybe it was a vulture, I don't know. As I approached, it took a few steps into my lane, then launched itself into the air. I ducked and leaned so as not to take it full in the face/chest and heard the brush of its feathers against my mirror and left handgrip. Whew!
A few years ago, a (much smaller) crow hit me square on the leg. Fortunately, I had been in process of moving my feet up to my road pegs, so the impact wasn't as severe as it could have been. Still, the resulting bruise was significant, and let me know how devastating a full hit of this larger bird would have been.
The weather was co-operative, the clouds giving way to blue sky as I headed east. Cool enough for extra clothes without having to bundle up. Even the 61 degree ride home from St. Pete last night was reasonably comfortable, given the bone chilling cold the same temperature would have been in New York! Rosie racked up over 1700 miles in November. Any guesses for December?