It's for real, I really did see this sign on a church last Wednesday. It was south of Tallahassee while I was on my way to Ocala. Bet it's down now after they got it handed to them last Saturday night.

Had a great visit with the family. I usually only see my grandparents, aunt-uncle-cousin at Thanksgiving so it's a big deal. Taking a trip in the Explorer was soooo nice, I liked it way better than the minivan. On the way down there was hardly any traffic and I rarely had to take the cruise control off and I actually got 24.5 mpg on one tank, better than the van but with a bigger engine and tires, crazy. The other times I was averaging 22.5, which is about what the van got.

So I'm looking for guys to take a trip with and swap driving duties with this weekend. Destination - Miami. I figure that if I've got a few guys to ride with, we can all swap out driving and sleeping and not have to get a hotel room. Yeah, we will probably stink by the time it's over, but this is serious stuff.

Why do I want to go to Miami so badly? Port St. Joe plays Fort Meade at 7pm Friday evening in the state championship game and I want to be there, but almost more than that, I want to be there for the game before it...Graceville! 3 seasons ago the Graceville Tigers, due to very poor coaching, had not won a game in 2 seasons. That season they won 2 games, and then the next year they were doing very very well until the coach got fired for something or another and they had to forfeit their games. Then a new coach comes in last season and turns things around and this Friday afternoon they play Evangel Christian from Lakeland at 1pm for the state championship in their division.