Weeki Wachee

Second day of the road trip and I finally got to see the World Famous Weeki Wachee Mermaid Show.  At one point the spring was owned by ABC and the parks most famous guest was Elvis Presley.  Watch out Mermaids got some trivia, but now the spring is a state owned park.  The show only lasted about thirty minutes, but it was an entertaining thirty minutes.  It seemed as their tails were used solely for aesthetics, more so than transportation.  They used their arms to do most of the flipping and swimming.

Proof!  Mermaids are real!  

Weeki Wachee Mermaid

I got myself a pretzel at the park cause my stomach was a rumblin', Motel 6 did not have breakfast, another reason for our relationship break, girls got to have her free food.  After my short visit with the Mermaids I headed off for my next destination, St. Augustine.  That drive took me about four ours, cause once again many bathroom breaks needed to be had.  I arrived in St. Augustine around 3:30, but it took me about an hour pr so to find a motel.  So, by then most everything I wanted to see was either closed or about to close.  Let me just tell you about the first motel I went to, there was about a 90% chance I was going to be murdered.  I don't think the weird dude in the lobby ever learned it was impolite to stare.  Next the motel looked and felt like it had been built in the 80's by the oh so lovable crackheads of the that generation.  Third there was no point in the door considering there was a half an inch of light shining through and the door latch was barely screwed in.  So I of course booked it to a place that didn't look like it would be my final resting place, Howard Johnson, or what the regulars call it HOJO proud supporters of the Harlem Globetrotters; now that's a place I can get behind.

Now for a picture of a place I didn't stop at.

Passing through Daytona Beach