Daylight in the Panhandle

Here on the soggy shores of Lake Seminole, where the Chatahoochee River is dammed up making the lake.  The Chatahoochee is in the alma mater song for Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, "Far across the Chatahoochee to the Upatoi, stands our loyal alma mater, Benning School for Boys, Onward ever, backward never, faithfully........(you get the idea).  Can't tell you how many times I was hazed in a mess hall of 400 and standing on the table singing this song solo.  What doesn't kill you will make you stronger or  will keep you alive until Viet Nam, or so they said.  So the Chatahoochee brings back memories galore.  Spent many a night camped on its banks playing war games in the red Georgia clay.

Don't remember the Alligator Flag plant then.  We saw it in action here.  One foot leaf plant that when an alligator swims by it, waves like a flag in warning.  Lots of  great vegetation, the Bald Cypress, reminds me of myself in so many ways, tall, strong, bald on top, and an evergreen that drops its needles in the winter. 

I felt a bit like a truck driver yesterday after hauling for 470 miles.  Twice our normal mileage, I thought the park was east of  Tallahasse not west.  Not sure how the truck drivers can do that all day, day in day out.  Cars cutting in front of you, thinking you can stop on a dime, passing you on the left, just making the whole drive a bit edgey.  But a good nights sleep cures all.

First day in Central Time Zone since July.  Wonder if that long of an exposure in the Eastern zone will have too many ill effects.  A good time zone will do that.  I have discovered on this trip though that I am a Pacific Coast Time Zone guy, I like my football on early and over early.