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Hello, folks, and welcome to the Gone to the Dogs podcast.

Steve Fielder with you here today.

Doing things a little bit differently.

I'm on the way up to Alabama to overnight bump on buddy, nubbing more,

and then we're going on over to Batesville, Mississippi to the Winter Classic.

And so as things will happen, you know, it was a short week and trying to get a podcast ready for, you know, next week, which is actually

the one you're listening to, just kind of ran out of time, man. So I got some road noise here.

Don't know if this is going to work out or not, but I'm going to try to give it a try here today.

I'm rolling up Highway 19 on the west coast of Florida.

I'm going to stick with the coastline pretty much all the way up until I reach Interstate 10, which runs

east and west across northern Florida.

If I were to take I10 to the west, it would take me over toward Tallahassee and even ultimately all the way over into

Louisiana Texas Louisiana I have driven that road all away from Phoenix which is a long

wrong way but anyway I'm going to just kind of try to give Phoenix, which is a long, long way.

But anyway, I'm going to just kind of try to give you a little local color from the state of Florida.

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