QUINCY, FL.  It was mostly overcast and windy as we drove today.  We stopped at a rest stop along U.S. 331 where rose bushes and rhododendron were in flower.  There was also a fully flowered but rain damaged lilac bush, which I did not know would grow this far south.  As we passed into Florida, we drove past the highest point in the state, Britton Hill, at 345 ft in elevation.  No nose bleeds to report.

We reached I-10 and proceeded eastward.  As we neared Leon County, we noticed on both sides of the highway trees snapped in half with the upper half tilted onto the ground.  There was debris everywhere for miles.  It was not until we got here to Pat Thomas Park in Gadsden County that an internet search informed us that the same storm that spawned tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia March 3rd (five days before we came this way) also spawned them in South Carolina and the Florida panhandle.  The damage in Alabama was in the eastern part of the state, so we saw no evidence of it on our trip to Red Bay and back, but the evidence here in Florida's panhandle is dramatic and lingering.  It will take quite a while to clean up.  The damage done on the road to this park has been cleared, and the park seems to have been spared.  The site assigned to us at reservation was impossible to get our motorhome in and out of, but a better one was available which we took (see photo below).  One more time we have been glad that our motorhome is relatively small and can weave through large trees and make tight turns.

Tomorrow we drive home.  It has been little more than three weeks that we have been away.

Our Site Between the Trees

Rhododendron Blossom

Rose Bush in Flower