Orlando to Pensacola -- Apr. 23rd

Oh yeah, I forgot to say that last night, on the way to Orlando I saw a shooting star and it landed probably no farther than 2-3 miles away from me!!
I woke up this morning and watched a little news before I showered and left the room. It said the road I almost ran out of gas on, Alligator Alley, was closed because brush fires were all over! I noticed smoke while I was on it, but didn't think much of it. A lot of people burn their own trash down South, so I thought that was probably it. Turns out not.
Had a bunch of driving to do today, so didn't do a whole lot. Started off my day leaving the hotel at noon, went to a Waffle House, I've kinda wanted to for a long time now, and it was good. Crazy, though. There were 3 waitresses, evidently the cook had gone home. They all kinda waited on me, but the main one in particular was doing all the cooking and waiting tables. She had skills! She was cooking like 5 meals at once, flipping this and that, and she probably only had one good tooth in her mouth. I didn't see one, but I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt. The meal tasted good though, and it was really cheap.
I drove to the University of Florida and walked around campus and took some pictures, it was classy. All brick buildings everywhere, and everyone seemed really nice. I kinda liked the vibe of Gainesville. After that I went through to Tallahassee.
I got pulled over for first time on the way. I broke my don't go more than 10 over rule and paid the price....$239.00. I was in the fast lane and once again a guy in front of me wouldn't get over for a long time, then, all of the sudden, he started going like 90 mph. I thought, two can play this game, and stayed right on him. Of course, just then two cop cars lasered us both and pulled us both over. Ouch! I could have used that money for a better purpose. Seriously, though, 239 dollars for going 16 over?? WTF?? I wonder if they enjoy taking people's money in such an economic time for stupid shit. Whatever.
There I went to FSU and did the same thing as at FU. Tallahassee wasn't as nice. Seemed dirty and poorer. Both campuses had beautiful girls and at FSU, in the yard, there were like 40 people all in their bathing suits, and som of them were wading in the fountains. It was pretty hot, but I'd not really seen that before. Damn sure not at Bellevue!! I made it to a state park, Florida caverns, as I kinda wanted to do a litle hike today, but it was closing in 40 minutes and he said all the good hikes were closed because they were under water. So I went on down the road and ran across another one that I researched earlier in the day. It was called Falling Water state park. Pretty darn cool. It had a couple of hikes that were just like 10-20 minutes, but it was a good little park. It has the highest waterfall in Florida, it drops off a hill only about 50 feet above you, but it falls down into a huge sinkhole. The park also featured a beautiful litlle lake, where I ate a snack and watched the sun set. See Facebook for pics. I drove the rest of the way to Pensacola, I could have probably went through to Mobile, but I was told to spend as little time as possible there. I'll check it out tomorrow during the day and see what they're talking about. Plus it would've taken another hour, and I wanted to get a bunch done at the hotel and stop at Target.
Looking forward to Mobile, Biloxi, and New Orleans manana.