So here we are, driving "back roads", i.e., mostly two lane US or Florida state highways rather than Interstates, since we like to see what we think of as "The Real America". Instead of cloverleaf exits with fast food franchises and malls, we see some priceless jewels:
- Ida Mae's Beauty Salon
- a mobile fishing tackle shop in a trailer pulled by a beat-up Suburban
- firetowers that you actually had to climb to get to the top
- Pa Pa's Feed Store
- a transmission shop with John Wayne's famous quote, "Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
- jacked-up pick-me-up trucks with smiling teenagers going for a Sunday drive
- "Mushroom compost - Cheap"
- fishermen in jon boats on the Suwanee River
- armadillo road kill??? We're not in Texas yet!
- All the Perks coffee stand, with the "barista" in a 6x8 wooden stand built around the former pump island of a 1950's gas station
- Tammy's Sand Bar, a local stop for boaters after a hard day water skiing
- and in remembrance of the days before cell phones, no cell phone service while driving through long stretches of pristine forests and wildlife management areas
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