{"id":21,"date":"2012-06-06T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/whiskeypapa\/here\/2012\/06\/06\/day-nine\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:15:12","slug":"day-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/2012\/06\/06\/day-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Perry to Rockledge was just over 250 miles.\u00a0 I got an early start though because rain was forecast after noon and so far (knock on wood) I have been able to avoid the rain.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s inevitable but I&#8217;m trying to put it off for as long as I can.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a fauna day.\u00a0 I saw a macaw flying overhead and a wild turkey spooked and flew right at me it did startle me but it wasn&#8217;t that close.\u00a0 Not like the time in Oklahoma (huh Bert).\u00a0 And then there was the snowy egret on the side of the road that had been contemplating suicide all morning and apparently had decided that death by motorcycle was going to be the method.\u00a0 He took off and only flew a foot off the ground right at my bike &#8211; not much I could do but prepare for the impact &#038; at the last second he changed his mind.\u00a0 I was really surprised that he was able to turn around that fast.\u00a0 Lastly, I was happy I saw and didn&#8217;t hit a rather large turtle crossing A1A up by Daytona. <\/p>\n<p>I got to Daytona and A1A around noon; plenty hot but no sign of rain. (Dad, thebatteries in my Spot lasted about 65 hours)\u00a0 By the time I got to Rockledge (about 50 miles south) it was considerably darker and I actually did get a few drops of rain but not enough to make me any wetter than I already was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VWDZ619qMSI\/T9Fc86q6nkI\/AAAAAAAAAfc\/mB4OrZpVHNM\/s1600\/PnS.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VWDZ619qMSI\/T9Fc86q6nkI\/AAAAAAAAAfc\/mB4OrZpVHNM\/s200\/PnS.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>Phil and Shelley have a garage at their condo and Shelley graciously moved her Mustang outside so I could keep the bike dry for my visit.\u00a0 We went out to Phil&#8217;s local watering hole and had a couple beers while Phil schooled two of his friends in the art of playing chess.\u00a0 One of his friends is a boat salesman and thought he might be able to hook me up with a fishing guide that could help me put a 10 pound bass on the wall.\u00a0 He made a couple calls but it didn&#8217;t work out.\u00a0 I will likely leave tomorrow and start heading north.\u00a0 I was toying with the idea of heading on down to Key West but I&#8217;ve been there and it just wouldn&#8217;t be the same without Robin.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll save that story for another time&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/share.findmespot.com\/shared\/faces\/viewspots.jsp?glId=0osKkUuuu7LlNoDKo8zUsFmO9FgQtAhO8\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to track my progress.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Perry to Rockledge was just over 250 miles.\u00a0 I got an early start though because rain was forecast after noon and so far (knock on wood) I have been able to avoid the rain.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s inevitable but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/2012\/06\/06\/day-nine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3p95H-l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennysride.com\/50states\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}