Today was a long hot day. Temps that reached 100 F according to the local signs that tell temp and time. I reached a crummy motel in Ocala FL around 5pm today exhausted by the heat and very dehydrated the room started spinning before I called my sister on the phone. She advised me to take a bath but when I went into the bathroom I noticed that no bath tub was to bee seen, shower time. So yes with a nice name like the silver princess motel I knew that I would feel like royalty… note sarcasm. But yes I am happy to have a bed to sleep in and a place to use the internet.

On my drive today I passed some hitchhikers sitting outside of a local evil empire (walmart) so I turned around for a few minutes and talked to them for a while they were working their way up to try to get back to Tennessee. I told them what I was doing and how I was headed out to Boston. They had been sitting there for a while and told me that they had already walked 30 miles today. Now my experience with hitchhikers that I pass on the road is that they will soon pass me in the back of some ones pickup truck, I let them know that they will soon pass me and they will probably make it to there destination before I make it to mine. This is one of the many things that has given me just a little more faith in humanity. There are some people out there that do care for others still. So I left for the road again and told them good luck and ill be looking for them a few miles down the road and sure enough 10 miles down the road underneath a freeway overpass were my two new friends, waving like crazy people at me as I passed them again. That made me happy today. I hope they make it to where they need to be and quickly.

So after the room stopped spinning and the AC started to cool me down I wiped my face of all the road dirt that I had accumulated from all the trucks passing me kicking up dirt and I have to say wow. I was one dirty guy today, when I took my safety glasses off you could see the clean versus dirty skin it was kind of funny. I hope for cooler weather tomorrow I will be trying to make it to Savannah GA.

Grace and Peace,
Christopher

that is what gets on you after 8 hrs on the road