DeFuniak, FL 11/21/09

I'm spending the night at the beautiful DeFuniak Motel.  It was $28.50 and 5 miles out of town to camp at an RV park in the rain, or $35 for my present accomodations, and an Italian resteraunt down the street.  Tough choice!
  Earlier in the day I rode through Ponce De Leon, Fl.  A quick search reminded me that ol' Juan PDL was a Spanish explorer, sent to claim the island of Bimini for the Spaniards, when he stumbled upon what he later named Florida.  The story goes that Juan was rather obsessed with finding the fountain of youth.  Apparently this was not a new obsession for him, nor for other Spanish explorers.  And, legend has it that the fountain exists somewhere in Florida.  Based on an unofficial survey by me of the average age of Floridians, I would guess that the fountain's location is not well publicized. 
  So you can imagine my exuberance when I discovered the actual fountain,  right in downtown Ponce De Leon (where else?).  Clever as Floridians can be, the Fountain of Youth is guarded be a chained,feral giraffe.  Having already been terrorized by a half dozen local mongrel dogs, I wasn't about to tangle with a panhandle giraffe, just to live forever.