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Last Day with Family . . .
Jan’s still under the weather with her sinus problems so we really didn’t do anything today. She slept and I worked on some things around the rig.
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve added a couple of new photos to the slide show at the top of the blog, The first one is a boat house on a pond near Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia.
And the second one is the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park.
What was really a coincidence is that a few minutes after I added these photos, I found a story online about a tourist flying a camera drone over the Spring and crashing the drone into it. Now they’re trying to figure out how to fish it out, and if they can get it out.
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When my family and I moved back from Colombia, South American, rather than go back to Gulf Shores, AL, we ended up here in Athens where my mother’s family lived. I attended the 10th grade here before I went off to Columbia Military Academy for my Junior and Senior years. So, while we were out driving around the other day, I took Jan by the house where one of my past girlfriends lived at the time.
We always called it the “The Parthenon House” because of all the columns, but I didn’t realize at the time how famous the house was. Designed by renowned architect Paul Rudolph, it made the cover of Life magazine, and was written up in House & Garden magazine.
And the inside is just as striking as the outside.
Here’s an interesting video compilation showing what happens when an 11 foot 8 inch train trestle meets 11 foot 8 inch plus vehicles. Several of the RV’s don’t even seem to know anything had happened.
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Today is our last day here in Athens, and we’ve had a great time getting to see a lot of family members, but we missed seeing others that we’ll have to catch next year.
Tomorrow we’ve got a 375 mile run down to the Gulf State Park at Gulf Shores for a 7 day stay, before we head on to Houston on the 16th. Really looking forward to it.
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Thought for the Day:
Tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup.
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