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. 

50th reunion day 2

I'm pretty sure this will be our last official, campus sponsored, reunion. Tonight is Aggie Muster. Everywhere, around the world, Aggies gather together on April 21st to pay tribute to our fellow Aggies who have fallen the previous year. Obviously, the Aggie Muster in College Station is by far the largest. Every year's graduating classes 50th Reunion is held on campus on April 21st. The Muster will also honor our class, the class of '74. We sit on the floor of the coliseum and somehow get recognition. I remember when I was a student here seeing former cadets who graduated 50 years ago was unreal. Those cadets are now us. We leave for the coliseum in a few minutes. Tomorrow we return to SA and after a couple of days there we will begin our drive home. 

50th reunion day 2

We did our class meeting this morning. There are over 300 of the class of 74 people here. The Maroon and White game was today so we attended a portion of that. After that was a visit to the George HW Bush presidential Library. We will start drinking soon so I decided to post this early. Tomorrow is Muster.