50 years ago today

Today is our last full day here. We did some more exploring on our bikes and I think we pretty much know our way around. The island is actually fairly small and with only 1/3d of it developed it's easy to stay oriented. These are some random pic's I took of our time here. The stained glass window was designed  by Louis Tiffany who was asked by some guy named Singer (sewing machines) and another good bud named Pulitzer to make a window for the Club's chapel. We leave tomorrow but will probably drag our feet. Just so we don't forget, we stayed in the Cherokee Cottage room 6102. 

50th wedding Anniversary

We are staying for 4 days at the Jekyll Island Club in Georgia. The club was established in the 1800s. At one time the members of this club owned 1/6th of the wealth of the entire country. It was pretty exclusive. After WW2 the state of Georgia bought the island and made it a state park. 2/3rds of the island has to remain undeveloped. Consequently, most of the island is covered in primordial old growth forest. The club property is magnificent. This would not be a place to vacation on a budget but it has been a great place to celebrate Jenny's birthday our 50th. The room we have is in one of the homes that was built by one of the club members. It's almost as big as our house. Anyway, we are here for one more full day and then it's back to the real world.

finally home day 5

I didn't post yesterday because we were at  a KOA in Yemassee SC. That town is only 30 miles from home. Why did we stop 30 miles from home, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. I wanted to give the holding tanks a good flush before we put the MP 3 in storage for 6 weeks before our next trip. That process takes a little time and you need to be hooked up to a sewage system. All commercial campgrounds have full hookups so we used the facilities at the KOA to flush the tanks. I have 2 vegetable gardens. One at the house and one at the community garden. I made sure I got everything in the ground before we left. I ordered some weird Radish seeds from the Burpee seed catalog and planted them the day before we left. The result is in the picture. The red radishes were supposedly jumbo. Looks like they were. As a side note, I ordered 12 Jerusalem artichokes from another catalog and by God all 12 have sprouted. That plant is not an Artichoke by any stretch of the imagination. Google it if you're interested. That's it for this trip. Davejennyjournal is going bye bye until next time.  

Drive home day 3

This park is on the Suwannee River at White Springs Fl.  Stephen Foster wrote over 200 songs, one of them was "Old Folks At Home" with the lyrics "way down on the Suwannee river". When he wrote the lyrics he was looking for a river with a 2 syllable name. He settled on the Pee Dee river but someone mentioned the Suwannee, a river he had never heard of, and that's what he used. There is no evidence that he ever saw the river. That is some worthless trivia. We've got one more stop before Beaufort. 

Drive home day 2

We finished up with Louisiana, drove through Mississippi and Alabama and are now in Florida by about 40 miles. We have camped here 3 times. It's just off of I 10 and we have stopped at every park along that route several times. We are still in Florida tomorrow. It's a long way across the Panhandle. 

Drive home day1

We are in a KOA that we have been to, way too many times. The camp is just outside of Lafayette in the town of Scott. During the slog on Interstate 10, WAZE told us to exit twice because of something or other that was up ahead on the Interstate. We did that so we got to see some of the countryside. There is a restaurant sort of place right at the entrance to the KOA that sells Boudin balls and Cracklin. These are Cajun dishes. I called my friend John Begnaud to ask his advice and he highly recommended I try some. We did. I probably won't know if I liked it until tomorrow. Aubrey had her prom and

sent us a few pics. The other pic was taken at the reunion. The ladies were horsing around. Florida Panhandle tomorrow. 

last day in SA

We hit the ground running tomorrow. Our plan is 4 one night stands. We should be in Lafayette tomorrow. It's a little over 400 miles, and that will be our longest day. The pic is Jerome's living room. Quite a bit different than Larson's.