Interesting People

It struck me today that we've had some great conversations with folks almost every time we stop.

In Key West, we chatted with the server at the Six-Toed Cat Cafe.  We had to try key lime pie, and she told us she wasn't sure why it's called that, except that it's made out of key limes, which, she said, are not the same as your regular limes.

We ordered breakfast one morning farther up the coast in Florida, and I asked the young waitress if there was anything we should be sure to see before we left the area.  She said, "Nah, it's really boring here.  But y'all should go to Orlando.  They got this place there called Cheesecake Factory and it's amazing!"

One night we were talking to a waiter at a pizza place somewhere in Georgia.  I asked him if he knew if it was legal to park overnight at the beach access parking areas near there. We had been unsuccessfully looking for a campground.  This kid, who was 19 or 20 said, "You'll get rousted out by the cops if you sleep in your van there.  It's not like the 'old days'."  (Like when he was in middle school?)

At our campsite on the beach this morning, we were visited by a guy named Murph.  He was a frail old guy, about 85, who was camping in a giant RV with his wife.  He wanted to know how we like our tent.  He said he used to have a tent but his wife liked to cook, so now he has a 35 foot RV.
He said he likes to come to Cape Hatteras for the wind surfing.

I wanted to see that.  He said he didn't feel like it today.
So I rode off.