Chapter 3
I made a side trip to the bank to deposit most of those wonderful hundred-dollar bills before I headed over to Normandy Boulevard and followed it to where it intersected US-301 in the tiny hamlet of Maxville. US-301 had once been a major north-south artery bringing tourists to sunny Florida, but all of that changed with the coming of the interstate highway system. Many of the mom-and-pop motels that had once lined the highway had succumbed from the lack of business, but the highway still carried a good flow of traffic, due mostly to the fact that both tourists and truckers exited I-95 in Jacksonville, followed I-10 roughly fifteen miles west to Baldwin, then picked up US-301, which took them to a connection with I-75 just north of Ocala.