A bitter sweetener.

I will admit to occationally listening to the radio show Coast to Coast as I drift off to sleep. I will not, however, admitt to being part of the tin foil hat gang. Still, on the few times I have heard it, some of the less exotic segments do give you something to think about. Take for instance the one that was on the other night featuring Dr. Betty Martini. It was about aspertame.

Now I would assume that most US citizens have at least heard of the documentary Sweet Deception, and know there is some difference about artificial sweeteners' saftey. But if one-half of what is on Dr. Martini's web site is accurate, we are in serious trouble. I am sure the FDA would say that the MDs opposing aspartame are alarmists. Problem is, too many of them are reputable, and do research, or are close to those who do. They are all saying the same thing, and they have documentation to back them up. The FDA just has name calling.

Some times I think I am going nuts. This organization is supposed to keep unsafe additives out of our food supply, yet they are in the pockets of Monsanto and others. The corruption in my government makes me sad; but it also makes me as mad as hell! Who do these amoral, puissant, money grubbing, sell-outs think they are? It is time for a total house cleaning of our government, and I think we may be on the edge of needing an out and out revolution. God I hope not! I really don't want war, and the havoc and devastation that comes with it. I just think the apathy of decades, the good 'ole boy system adopted by the hippies not in office may be too entrenched to take care of it any other way.

God help our country! He is the only one who can now, because we have destroyed it.

Another surprise!

Here is another sign warning us about bombs and radiation! Like the tree line was a safe wall to keep the radiation in. They surely would have had to have anything that emitted radiation far enough away to not be a hazard at the road. But they did warn to stay out because of live bombs.

Big Surpise!

We came up on some signs that surprised us, and gaves us a few minuets worry. We hope we were over the magical line.

Short movie of picnic area and lake.

Drive through Ocala National Forest

Theses pictures are backward to the way we uploaded them. Oh well! Live and learn.

These three picts are a panoramic view of one of the lakes in the forest. There was a nice picnic and parking area, and a in one of them you can see the drag marks from the boats.

This is where the people put the boats in the water. Bob was watching the area while I took this pic, because he thought it might have been a gator drag mark. When he saw a little oil floating, he came to the conclusion it was a boat launch area.

This was on the way into Ocala National Forest. See the pink dirt road. The main road through the forest was paved, but it was a highway. All access roads off of the main one into the forest were dirt.

One thing that really caught our attention at this site was the fact that all of the growth was the same height. I am guessing a hurricane took out the old growth, and this new growth was as a result of that devastation. It looked like a 3-5 year growth.

First real motorcycle ride here in Florida.

OK. Bob is planning a nice little ride for just the two of us, since his dad isn't here to take our son on his bike. We are riding to Ocala State Park and packing a picnic. Bob has been riding ever since he got down here, and he took me on a couple of short rides, but this will be the first real one. We will take the camera and post the trip.