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This was a travel day. We had originally planned on traveling some serious
miles that day in a quest to visit with our friend, Joanie Bernard, and her 2
daughters, Cora and Ellen, who are good friends with our girls. Joanie is
going to medical school up in Birmingham Alabama, and the idea was to get to
some part of the Florida panhandle roughly below her, in the hopes that she
could get away for a day or so and meet us down on the beach there. Much
of the drive was over smaller roads (by choice), so the scenery was
interesting. North Florida is very rural, and very Southern at
times. Lots of very small towns, some seemingly entirely black, and some
entirely white. All very homey, with a sort of warmth about them that was
quite compelling. About
two thirds of the way through the drive that day we finally caught up with
Joanie, and discovered that she did not have her girls with her at the
moment. So -- change of plan. We headed Northeast again (after
traveling Northwest much of the day), and headed up to visit with Jody's Georgia
relations. By about 7:00 PM, I was tired of driving (it was dark, and thus
the scenery was no longer as interesting), so we started looking
for an RV Park, and found Kelly's just off I-10, about 4 hours from
Savannah. Located a short distance from the Suwannee River (as in the
song), Kelly's was small but had plenty of room, and was very inexpensive at 11
dollars a night. We parked, unhooked, made dinner and generally relaxed
after a long day in the car. |