I can't find the posts now, but today someone asked why, if BL went to the reserve to commit suicide, would he go so far in? I think that's an excellent question. Another poster today linked an article that had the time and date from the parking violation that had been on the Mustang, and it was around 2:42ish (I think) on 9/14, the same day he supposedly parked there. Why?
So I got to thinking how the white van was not parked in an official parking spot in Spread Creek, and about what BL told the hitchhikers in WY, how he had hiked and camped along the Snake River. I've been looking at the satellite map of the Carlton Reserve area, but I'm not sure where all the searches have been, nor what the conditions are like in any direction.
But, what if BL parked the Mustang just off the road near the reserve, rather than in a parking spot? That might lead to a parking violation the same day. I read somewhere it was about leaving it overnight, but that wouldn't make sense unless it had been there before Tuesday. This is information I just don't know. Anyway, parking in unofficial parking spots is something we've seen BL do before.
Now, if you went straight east of the road into the reserve where he got his ticket (via the address on the violation), you would hit the Myakka River. The area between the road and river is still reserve land, but if you followed the river very far north or south, you leave reserve land. Heading south you hit more populated areas and the interstate, but north goes on a long ways without getting overly close to housing, and it does again enter reserve land.
Does anyone know if any searches happened up and down the Mayakka River banks?