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Matt is driving ......... Matt is the DJ too...... so we are listening to an eclecttic mix of The Cult and The Specials..... Cake....... Mumford and Sons....... Damien Rice....... and BB King.......... amongst others...... Matt says this track 'Many Miles Travelled' by BB King is my theme song......... :-/ :-)

We r rolling from Fort Lauderdale to Tampa across the everglades and up the Gulf Coast......... the day in Fort Lauderdale was perfect........ the night drive not so much...... pretty grim in fact ..... as its all foggy across the swamps and now along the coastal road...... its gone midnight....... this fog is slowing us down big time......... even the Beast car cannot speed us through all this...........

America sometimes amazes me with all this drastic weather and differing landscape and experience......... snow storms up in Rochester yesterday ....... today sun, sea and sand in Fort Lauderdale........ tonight humidity swamps and thick fog ........ I've been hanging out in the States for nearly a decade but it still amazes me sometimes.

Matt told me today he had been here in the US for 10 years and one day....... I'm not that precise in fact as you know Im pretty vague........ hehehe.......but I have been zapping about over here for more than nine years amazingly....... and incredibly it all still seems new and interesting....... this fog......hundreds of miles of fog...... is a new one on me........ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-)))))

Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

PS.......... We are in Tampa now....... This Beastie above at the gas station was unafraid of the red Beast....... it was even having a go at me............. talking of new and interesting I think this Roach thingy at approx 4 inches long was the biggest bug I have ever seen...... enough to totally creep me out when it rushed towards me......... agggghhhhhhhhh ........... anyway its crazily late again now gotta kip :-/