I can finally show pictures of Georgia!

My horse picture grouping is from Cumberland Island.  They are everywhere on the island.

We saw a few things while we were in Georgia.  We went to Cumberland Island National Seashore and took an all day island tour including a ferry ride.  We visited St. Mary's and we saw a traditional procession honoring George Washington.  We saw different animals and a burn in Crooked River State Park.  We went to a submarine museum.  A sub base is right next to Crooked River State Park.

We toured Plum Cottage. It is from the Carnegie era when the island was a rich man's winter retreat.  JFK Jr. was married in a tiny, tiny church on Cumberland (no picture). That is why it was a private ceremony.  We saw the church but I cannot find the pix. Plantations were on the island before/during the civil war and in the colonial era live oaks were sold for timber for sailing ships.  Now it is a national site which you must take a 1 hour ferry ride or your own boat to see.  We took an all day tour with a NPS guide, Robin, who was wonderful.  No vehicles (except our tour vans) are on the island now and roads are bumpy sandy one way paths.  There is primitive camping - what you bring in you bring out and one small campground with showers.  Young people in groups were on the ferry and ready to camp there.

Around President's Day there was a ceremony honoring George Washington in St. Mary's.  The president knew people who had connections with Cumberland Island so the first ceremony was just a few months after Geoge Washington's death.  That tradition continues today. There was a riderless horse with backward boots in stirrups in the procession.

 

At Crooked River State Park they did a prescribed burn.  Some of the burn area was in back of our rig.  Note below how close to the MH is was.  They knew just what they were doing.  The next few nights after dark fires in dead trees were still burning as patches in the woods glowed and flamed. 

 

What is now and what we left behind

This is what we left behind and below is what we arrived to this past October.
  We will stay put in this beautiful place for a time.  I have a painting studio here.

Spring is here....Really????

We have been back a week.  It snowed on March 21st, the first day of spring.  We still have over a foot on the ground and it has been very cold (20's or teens at night).  I have started the chores of unpacking and placing everything away.  We left right after Christmas with an in progress livingroom.  We replaced all flooring in the house Nov-Dec 2014.  After 26 years it was time to replace and improve things in our home.  I am sad to sell our traveling home.  After 9 years and over 100,000 miles of travel, the shock of staying put is daunting.  But we are older now and I need to stay put a bit more.  "A rolling stone gathers no moss." my grandmother told me and it is very true.  We JUST HAD A BALL TRAVELING and I recommend it to anyone.  If you really want to travel "where there is a will, there is a way." (another grandmother saying) then GO FOR IT!!!!

MOTOR HOME UP FOR SALE

We arrived on March 15, 2015 to more than a foot of snow and cold weather. Thank you grandson, Thomas, who plowed our MH driveway so we could arrive.  He borrowed a bucket loader to plow our separate MH driveway which was covered with 4 feet of snow at the time.  2015 has not been going as planned.  The weather all along the east coast has been unusual.  It has been cold down south and there has been snow where it usually isn't.  We had to wait for good weather to travel and we winterized in the West Virginia Welcome Center parking lot!! 

First we waited in western Georgia to go north, gave up and headed south to Florida for some warmth.  We spent a week there and then the weather cleared just enough for traveling north.  We travel slowly and stopped to visit people.  From Florida it took us 6 nights on the road to arrive from the Tampa area.

THE RV IS UP FOR SALE.  Anyone want a great 2009 Monoco Monarch that has lovingly been kept up and used often?

Above is the RV while we were in Florida.  Below some of the inside.