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Thomasville, GA – September 3, 2016
Well, we have evacuated Tallahassee for a few days due to the fact that it received a direct hit by Hurricane Hermine Thursday night and the local utilities are exhibiting exceptional incompetence in getting power back in place for over 80K houses. So we drove up 319 40 miles to Thomasville and wondered around the…

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Ah, the old wall of candy and gum machines! There was a bank of these inside the Roses store in DeLand (it wasn’t a “discount” outfit then, it was still middle-of-the-road, I’m sure it was…) when I was a kid that I would covet over for hours (OK, I’m sure my dad only let me linger…

New Smyrna Beach – November 2016
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The Ritz Hotel – Clearwater Beach, FL
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