Too Close for Comfort

When I was leaving Cape Coral heading up the West Coast of Florida, I came across these guys – pretty neat looking!  The pink flamingo was at the entrance of the shopping area which caught my eye first, his head was bobbing up and down.  Just something fun!

I was on Route 301 getting ready to go up over a bridge in Bradenton, it was getting backed up with some construction.  I was in the left hand lane, and a truck in the middle lane decided he wanted to miss all this and cut across two lanes of traffic to a side road on the left.  He didn’t even look and cut over, he almost broadsided me – he missed me by two maybe three inches.  I had to lean my bike around him so my fairing and mirror wouldn’t hit his truck.  Just before this I had felt that I needed to ask the powers to be to make sure people saw me, I had just finished that little prayer when all this happened.  I pulled over into a parking lot and took a couple deep breaths and calm down a little.  That was too close for comfort!  The rest of the day was event free – Phew!

I have been trying to figure out what these blue reflectors in the middle of my side of the road are for.  They weren’t consistent with driveways y or mall entrances, nothing was popping out to why they were there.  They drove me crazy as I would hit them from time to time.  Well, I finally found someone who could tell me what they were for.  They mark where a fire hydrant is located!  So now every time I see one I’ve been looking, and that’s what they are!  Check it out…  Another mystery solved.

Love and Light to you all!