“It’s going to be dry until Monday” That’s what the forecast was as I walked out of the house. It had been three years since I last wrote about a trip and longer than that since I had been on a bike trip. My friend Mike and I are going to do a two day …
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Our last day in Atlanta was packed. It was a beautiful clear day. When we were in the beautiful Chattanooga aquariums, one of the docents had recommended the Atlanta aquarium. We enjoyed it, but thought Chsttanooga ‘s was better. If you only had time to go to one Civil Rights museum, I think this would …
An hour and twenty minutes outside Atlanta are Gibbs Gardens. Marlina learned about it on a program about gardening she thinks is called called Garden Smart. 30 years ago this guy bought hundreds of acres outside Atlanta and began creating this garden. It has over 150 varieties of Japanese maple. He had two gardens ,one …
Last week on a rainy afternoon we drove up the coast from St Augustine to see, the tournament players course near Jacksonville. A group that organized the TPC tournament players championship wanted to have their own course to hold the championship tournament on. They approached a private club At Sawgrass to make a deal, but …
We have army’s with various services to protect our country and a way of life we value. This one day a year that we set aside to honor the work they have done. We usually think of this in terms of dealing with other nations. On this trip Marlina and I have been visiting a …
When it is first mined, it is very soft, so soft, that you can’t build with it. It needs to allowed to dry and harden for several years. Once it reaches the proper hardness it is great for building. In St Augustine, the Spanish built 6 different forts out of wood, each succumbing to rot …
We have been in St Augustine Florida for the last 3 days, having driven from Tallahassee Florida. Had rain the first several days and got caught in several,showers, but were dry within 20 mins. Today it was in the 80’s with 93%+ humidity.. You can drink 16 oz of H2O in 30 seconds in this …
As we started the trip we were listening to an audiobook called The Furious Hours. It’s the story of a trial in Alabama about a man who had shot and killed a Reverend in front of hundreds of witnesses. This Reverend had been accused and never convicted of killing 4 of his family members for …
Yesterday we started to speak about the work of Bryan Stevenson. He begins defending men on Georgia’s death row who cannot pay for an attorney.He moved to Alabama for several reasons,one of which is there are no public defenders for people on death row in Alabama. The only system is if the jurisdiction has a …
Today we visited Ivy Green,the birth place of Helen Keller. Her grandfather had bought the plantation in the antibellum and her father had been a Calvary officer in-the confederate army. She was born and healthy until the age of 19 months,when she contracted what was probably scarlet fever. When the fever abated she could no …
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