I’m cute, right?
This limestone pool looks like it belongs in a Japanese garden, not Georgia
Good Morning Key West. Roosters everywhere
A smile for the camera
Couple of neighbors over for breakfast
Frog wants to go for ride
Jane 1st (and last) oyster
Ty’s favorite road sign. Translate to Hot Man Crossing
Greetings
It has been a while sense I made a comment on Jane’s blog so I thought I would take a turn.
First of all I am glad to have provided content for the blog .I started by walking into the wrong house in Destine, it could have gone bad you know Florida has that “Stand Your Ground” law, then I had my bike stolen in South Beach Miami, followed by 3 staples in my forehead after walking into the RV hitch and finally having to go to Urgent Care to have a tick removed from my, well, if you’re a constant reader you know the tick was on the part of the body where the sun doesn’t shine.
As I think back on the last 4 months some things stand out. Florida…we were originally going to leave around 2/16 and head for the Gulf Coast then it was 3/1 then 3/15 then we invited the grand kids to join us the last week of March for their spring break. The real truth is Jane loved the heat and humidity while I was ready to head north. Anyone married for close for 49 years knows how that discussion went.
My biggest concern with Florida was I had a hard time finding a longer hiking or biking trail. I would eventually find them but it was as we were about to move on. Not being a runner, nor able to find the slightest hill, I never once got out of breadth…unlike Colorado where most hikes or biking resulted in being completely winded.
Some of the things we said we were going to do on the adventure included visiting national parks, presidential libraries, state capital buildings attend local theater. We did visit one state capital in Tallahassee Florida and it was a bust just a big tall white office building. On the presidential front we did visit the Truman’s Summer White House in Key West which was a welcoming smaller unassuming home. Then in the past 3 days we visited a Jimmy Carter museum in Plains GA, in a converted former high school. The Carter home in Plains is their original home and where they still live when in town. We then visited Warm Springs GA., home of the FDR “Little White House”. They were all interesting but FDR’s was by far the most informative. I guess when you are in office for 12 years during the great depression and WW ll you have time to make things happen. I knew he enacted many social programs such as Social Security and Unemployment Compensation, remember 13 million mostly men were out of work, the CCC, himself being a victim of Polio he started the March of Dimes and many more. He also is responsible for FDIC the SEC the National Labor Relations Board the FCC and many more. Anyway, it turns out his time spent in Warm Springs introduced him to a segment of the population he never met while growing up in the very upscale community of Hyde Park NY. namely farmers and blue-collar workers which greatly influenced his policy agenda.
Now I am probable steeling a little of Jane’s thunder. The most impactful emotional experience we have had was visiting the Andersonville National Historic Cemetery a Confederate POW prison from Feb.1864 to April 1865. During that time there were approximately 45,000 prisoners of which 13,000 died. It also detailed horrific conditions in northern POW camps like Elmira Prison in Elmira NY where thousands of Confederate soldiers died. All told 30,000 Union and 26,000 Confederate captives died in captivity. The site takes you through POW experiences, some first-person interviews, at successive wars, WWl, WWll, Korea and Viet Nam. Very disturbing. I think President Trump should visit this site it may change his opinion about POWs
In conclusion we are finally out of Florida, hooray, and in Georgia. Georgia has hills and valley’s and cool nights and warm low humidity days, at least for a few more weeks. Jane and I took a great hike on Pine Mountain and so on. Who would have thought I would enjoy Georgia.
The full-time RVing life style seems to be kind of addicting. Something different most every day. I consider it freeing in many ways. The biggest challenge is trying to decide what part of the country or what interesting place you would like to visit next.
I have also attached some pictures which I found fun in some way or another.TY