Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Holiday to all of you. I haven’t posted in a few days due to the busy schedule that was thrust upon us unknowingly. We arrived at Yellow Jacket RV Resort just outside of Old Town, Florida. Old Town isn’t a town at all. It’s just an intersection with a grocery store, bank, hairdresser that also sells shrimp, a video store that also doubles as a car wash. I think you’re getting the picture. Head south from the intersection 10 miles and you come to the dirt road leading to the campground. We are adjacent to the Lower Suwanee National Wildlife Preserve and have secured a site on the Suwanee River.

Here’s a photo that I see each morning looking out on the sun coming up on the river.

I’ll catch you up on the past few days tomorrow. Right now I have to get out for my morning bicycle ride and then it’s back to the bus to help Robin with the candied sweet potatos. Turkeys are being fryed and roasted during the day. Any camper who wants to bring a covered dish will be celebrating this festive day at the outdoor pavilion. Enjoy your family, football, food and the slideshow:

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MacDonald’s Art Deco

I spied this display on the model railroad setup and immediately felt that inner shock taking hold once again. Aging is a cruel hoax. You know what I mean. No matter your age, no matter your phsyical condition, be it middle aged, a boomer, or graying, you still feel like a youngster in your mind. I thought this mindset was just akin to me. But as I grow wiser, it is of universal acceptance. We all feel like high schoolers in our minds. Or at the very least, mentally in our 20’s. And as I pondered upon this plastic replica, I was saddened to remember that I have lived long enough to actually purchase a 15 cent hamburger from MacDonald’s. In fact, I bought their three course meal for 47 cents as advertised. Yep, a hamburger for 15, the fries for 12, all topped of with a 22 cent milkshake. I am humbled by the disparity between geological and human time, humbled by the fleeting nature of my existence. I don’t have the luxury of changing my shape over the epochs as other life forms may. Life is short. Time is of the essence. But if I am going to make the most of my life, if I am going to strive for some heroic contribution, then it may take a while. I may need all the time I can get. So the notion that we can simply lose a few hours—time, strikes me as absurd. Which leads me to wonder why, when time is so important to all of us, each November we steal some of it away from every one of us. And dark come before dinner.

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Dining Under the Moss

Our last night in Savannah was quite entertaining. We payed a visit to the Old Timey Town BBQ eatery. This was the most unusual place in which we’ve broken bread. The paraphenalia outside far exceeded any movie setting that could be imagined. This diner was constructed in 1975, however, all the materials — wood, pipes, etc. were at least 100 years old giving it a look from the previous century. It was as if we had gone through the “looking glass” and slid back more than those five score. Inside, we were seated at a very cozy booth just big enough for the two of us. A working fireplace adjacent to our table added that smokey flavor to the quisine. The eye candy far outnumbered anything we’d seen prior to coming in. There were antiques collected by the owner for the past 75 years. Mike and Frank of American Pickers would have had a field day here. A player piano kept us entertained while we ate providing music from the age of jazz. We had heard about the train room prior to coming here. We asked the owners wife and she explained that as soon as we had finished she would take us to an adjacent room where she would light up the “roundhouse” and let the engines tote their cargo around the room. I looked a bit puzzled. When we were informed that they were out of all the dessert pie we took her up on the offer. Amazed. There before us, they turned on five transformers, and engaged a couple of lines of Lionel’s O Guage. This collection had to be priceless and it was easy to tell this was no reproduction. These engines, track, and haulers were older than I was. The owner pointed out many more items of interest and the story behind many an antique. We spent more time learning history and perusing that it took to down that fine barbecue. It was by no means a five star diner but if you’re in the Savannah area, you owe it to yourself to partake and be entertained. Robin bid farewell to the dummy on the tractor, got in the car with her own dummy. We sat out under a full moon, talking aloud about the myriad of oddities we have been exposed to in this life on the road. Oh, how fortunate to have wanderlust genetics.

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