Life after Bainbridge, Georgia Jan.2013

We left Bainbridge, Ga. on Thursday morning Jan. 24 and drove about 100 miles down to the Florida Forgotten Coast, Carrabelle, Florida.   Sunset Isle RV was awaiting us and had us a  spot looking over at the Carrabelle River.   Del, the owner told us to just pick a spot, WELL wouldn't you know the one we picked had a plugged up sewer connection and we needed to the dump two weeks of   S___t.  If you have seen the movie  RV with Robin Williams, you know what is about to happen.    Larry gets everything connected and pulls the handle to release realizes it is plugged and shuts it down. Now he is faced with 20 feet of sewer hose full of   S___t.  I called the owner, we are going to change sites but what do you do with a 20 ft hose of S____t?  The owner tells Larry just dump on the ground and I will hose it down however my clever husband decided to unhook hold the two ends up and walk to the other dump.   He did a great job and never spilled any.   So thus the picture here on the Blog.

That was the start to a great weekend though.

Later that afternoon we went into town and bought 2 pounds of fresh shrimp and cooked them for dinner.   Friday we went to the Crooked River Lighthouse and had a great tour of the museum and Larry got a new job as Lighthouse Keeper.   We decided that my back and knees wouldn't like it if we climbed it so we just enjoyed a couple of videos about the history of the lighthouse.  We drove over to Eastpoint and had lunch at The Hut (fried shrimp) of course and then went to Barbers to buy some shrimp to have in the freezer. 

Saturday we had a visit from Becky Mapel who was married to Larry's first cousin, Steve who was killed in Viet Nam in 1968.   She since married and had a family and lives in the area.    After that we drove over to St. George Island to check it out.  It has the Gulf of Mexico on one side and the Appalachicola  Bay on the other.  A lot of vacation homes and also a state park for camping.  Later we had dinner at the Fisherman's Wife Restaurant and had a nice lesson from the owner, Miss Pam, about the different types of shrimp.   We understand the Key West Pink are the best shrimp to eat.  We were invited by the park owner to stay and have a cookout on Sunday with a group of his friends who were smoking mullet and also cooking venison.  We already had plans to move on to another park, so we thanked him and left Sunday morning and traveled about 130 miles to Miramar Beach Fl, which is just outside of Destin.   Very nice RV park about 2 blocks from the Gulf. Interesting name for the park, Geronimo RV Park. We will be here a couple of days and then move on over closer to Gulf Shores Alabama .

Pictures

Oak City Cementery, Humphrey Lot

All of the female first cousins

All the humprhey first cousins

I am going to try and post some pictures now that I have a strong wi fi. The first pictures are of the first cousins and then the sunday morning breakfast of milk gravy, bisquits, and bacon.   Thanks Bunny for cooking the gravy and I think Keith and Carey did the bacon, not sure who was responsible for the bisquits.   All I know is I stayed in the motorhome until it was ALL ready. 

Jan.18, 2013

Things sort of got out of hand and I just didn't get back to thinking about the blog.

We left Charleston SC on Monday, Jan . 6th and just took our time to get down to Brunswick, Georgia.   The Golden Isles RV Park was just a nice spot for us to stay for a couple of night.   On Tuesday my cousin and her husband who were in St. Marys Ga. came over and we went to St. Simons Island.   It had been MANY years since we were there, in fact Larry had never been.    We went to Fort Frederica which was built in the 1700's.   After touring the remains of the Fort we went to the Lighthouse.   I wanted to climb it but my knees thought otherwise.  After a great lunch of fresh fried shrimp in the little downtown area  we returned to the campground . Wednesday we traveled on to Bainbridge, Georgia to get ready for the first ever First Cousins Reunion on the Humphrey side of the family, to be held on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013.
We had a wonderful time with 9 of the 17 first cousins present. Of course we did invite our spouses.  We all enjoyed catching up with each others lives and also sharing stories of our childhood at our grandparents house and the stories of our lives now and our families.   We visited the cementery where our  great grandparents, grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles are buried and also the "old home place" of our grandparents.

After a full afternoon of enjoying all the first cousins, three of our third cousins joined us for dinner.   Lots more sharing was done and enjoyed by all.  Everyone wants to do this again next year.

During the weekend we did have a first cousin pass away .   Gordy Pope had been ill for several months and he died on Friday .    Larry and I went to the visitation on Sunday afternoon and then I went to the funeral on Monday with two more of the cousins.   It just goes to show that we don't ever know when we will lose a loved one.

The rest of the week we were just going to rest and relax but that proved to be another plan.   Joanne, my cousin, whose yard we park the RV in got really sick and we had to put her in the hospital. Her grown kids who live next door were out of town so Larry and I had to take over.   We will stay until they get back in town on Monday night, so we had to change some of our plans . 

I will post some pictures of the reunion when I get a better WiFi signal.

2013 Winter Trip

The Big A Bus was packed and ready to roll on Wednesday Jan 2, 2013.   We actually slept in the bus in the barn that night and got ready to leave on Thursday 1/3.
Left the driveway at 9:30 am and headed to Rock Hill , SC for the night in Madison's favorite campground, Wal Mart.     After a noisy night and not much sleep we got an early start to Charleston SC.    Checked into the James Island County Park about 1:30.   David and Kay Piper, friends of ours who are full timers and work here in the park from October to May met us at the registration desk .   They had arranged for us to be parked next to them.
We have spent today touring around the area.    Tomorrow we are going to Fort Sumter and also downtown Charleston.    We have to check out Poogans Porch which is a restuarant with a wonderful story about a dog. 
Monday we are going on down to Brunswick, Georgia and do a little sightseeing around that area.   I want to go back to St. Simons Island and also Jekell Island,   Haven't been in many years.