November 15, 2015

Florida has rurals?

It does!  And its a bit scary...Why do I say that?  Anyone who knows me knows that I like to take off and drive, its, my thing.  I was in need of one of those drives so looked on a map and took off.  Leaving the freeway and driving through a little town I saw a sign for a Florida Railroad museum ("a" since there appears to be quite a few) and noticed a lot of cars in the parking lot and beyond the cars I caught sight of a swaztika flag!  A bit unnerved I kept driving and saw coming towards me two tanks!  Yes, the rurals of Florida are a bit scary!  

(Turns out as I looked online today for any news report of some civil uprising/squashing that is was a WWII reinactment of German occupation of Paris and a fictional battle and the last train out.  Whew!)

Bothered by what I saw but unwilling to turn around and witness what I thought was at the very least an uncomfortable situation, I made my way to my original destination....

 It was listed on Google as a Floridian Ghost Town and I needed to drive, so off I went not expecting to actually find rurals!  So much of what I have seen of Florida has been a concrete jungle with wall to wall buildings.

There wasn't anything at Fort Lonesome other than a little grocery store, no remnants of what ever existed previously because, come to find out that there never was anything there.  Not sure how if can be defined as a Ghost Town.

Decided to do some geocaching when I found "no-where" ...

Geocache container in case you are wondering

No houses, no cars going by, no people, I had finally found no-where in Florida and it was wonderful and peaceful and calm.

 There were come interesting critters as I moved from one geocache to the next, there were several on this wonderful road of no-where.

This squirrel had such beautiful coloring, wasn't sure what it was when I first saw it.

 Suprisingly the sight of a cow was very comforting...moooo!

My road to no-where eventually lead to the road that would take me back to the world of hustle and bustle that people view as normal and the retail temples at which they worship and spend their weekends.  

As for me, I am already planning a trip to find yet more rurals and more no-wheres in Florida.