Holy Batmobile
Friday, 16 Nov
After waking up at first light to 41 degrees, we did breakfast and headed out. As it was forecast to be cool and breezy with limited golf options, we elected to make it a driving day. We plugged in the Tallahassee Auto Museum as a destination in the GPS and headed west.
As we passed US 301, a recycling truck merged onto I-10 just in front of us. It had an open top and white pieces of debris were being blown out of the semi-truck bed. About 20 minutes later, he passed us at a much higher speed than we were choosing to travel. Initially, I took some comfort that the trailer no longer had debris coming out of it. Wishful thinking unfortunately, as a brick size piece of something white flew out and his the center of our windshield. Fortunately, whatever it was was soft enough that we survived - it bounced off without crashing into the passenger compartment, and did not crack the windshield. Needless to say, the three of us were pretty shook up.
As we passed US 301, a recycling truck merged onto I-10 just in front of us. It had an open top and white pieces of debris were being blown out of the semi-truck bed. About 20 minutes later, he passed us at a much higher speed than we were choosing to travel. Initially, I took some comfort that the trailer no longer had debris coming out of it. Wishful thinking unfortunately, as a brick size piece of something white flew out and his the center of our windshield. Fortunately, whatever it was was soft enough that we survived - it bounced off without crashing into the passenger compartment, and did not crack the windshield. Needless to say, the three of us were pretty shook up.
We arrived at the Tallahassee Auto Museum around late morning. Wow, what an amazing collection of cars, including the rarest and oldest known surviving auto in America, a 1984 Duryea.
The museum boasts that they have over 150 classic, antique, muscle and movie cars on display, along with large collections of motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, pedal cars, antique boat & engines, sports memorabilia, fishing lures, a huge doll collection, antique registers, electric fans, antique slot machines, a large law enforcement collection and much more.
A rare, one-of-a-kind 1939 Ford roadster:
They even have a $3 million Corvette and the original Batmobile from the 1960s TV series.
And a “car” from the future:
We then continued west, making our way to Rainbow Plantation in Summerdale, AL, one of the seven Escapees RV Club owned and operated RV parks. As a rainbow park, any RVer can stay there, but as an Escapees RV Club member, we get a slight discount on the nightly rate for a regular hook up site, and can dry camp for $7.50/night for up to 7 nights. Tonight, there is only one other RV in the dry camping area, which has 10 spots. Perfectly adequate for an overnight stay. Oh, and we showed up with no reservations too.
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