I was pretty sure that "nismo" was joking when he mentioned Parkway Blvd as it looked like it was lined with buildings on Google Maps, but it was close to the end of our route and I had nothing better to do than to give it a shot. We cruised up there and cut the turn onto the road to find that it was just as we had suspected, a residential road through a neighborhood. We stuck to the speed limit and made our way through laughing at the extent of our desperation to find good roads that took us to a road we knew was almost certainly not what we were looking for. The northern section that had seemed to hold a faint glimmer of promise turned out to be nothing but a couple of flat bends in the road eventually leading it to connect the neighborhood back to another main road. We turned onto the main road and started back toward Temple Terrace trying not to think about how much $4.09 93 octane we'd spilled in the pursuit of a perfect road we knew we weren't going to find. It was still a lot of fun, as far as exercises in futility go.

That's it for now, but I'm sure that at some point in the future I will find some excuse to go an hour out of my way to make a few runs down Bailey's Bluff to see what it's all about. And on my next trip to visit my sister at UF- well, it can't be THAT far out of my way to go see the Ozello Trail and have a bit of fun, can it? Google Maps tells me that it would make a two hour trip to Gainesville into a 4-5 hour trip to Gainesville but I don't think it's giving me enough credit. I'm no Michael Shu-kitty but I think I can show Google Maps a thing or two.