"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son" - Dean Wermer, "Animal House"
Continuing with our trip through Georgia before the Sons of the Desert Convention…
After our long bus-rides the day before, the last thing that Ashleigh and I wanted to do on Tuesday was get up and get on another bus. And yet, we did just that…this time taking a three-hour trip to historical Savannah, Georgia. Read the rest of this entry »
Continuing with Ashleigh’s and my Georgia trip in July, 2006… It soon became apparent to us that it was not the wisest of moves to take the pre-convention trip on Monday, July 10. If you remember, we had left Plains on Sunday afternoon, drove to Warm Springs, and then made the lengthy jaunt across Georgia to Augusta…only to get up early the next morning to get on a bus and drive all the way back to Plains! Read the rest of this entry »
After leaving Plains this past summer, Ashleigh, Bob, and I made our way to northwest Georgia to visit the Little White House in Warm Springs. This house was built for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 after he had come to this town to experience the naturally warm flowing waters that were soothing to his polio-stricken body. He enjoyed it so much here that he often visited it as a retreat during his Presidency. Read the rest of this entry »
Disclaimer: If you are reading my other postings about Ashleigh’s and my Georgia travels on our way to the Augusta Sons convention, do not get confused about this posting. Although in those other postings, we are also poised to attend Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School class in Plains – this posting is about a trip that I just took with my Dad and uncle this past weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
As you read earlier, Ashleigh and I visited the grave of Oliver Hardy’s mother during a brief stop in Atlanta on our way to the Augusta Sons of the Desert Convention. Following that, we headed to the airport to pick up my friend Bob. We had made good time getting to Atlanta and finding Miss Emmie Hardy’s final resting place, so we had plenty of time to visit the Jimmy Carter Library. Read the rest of this entry »