It’s Thursday—so it must be memory day and today’s memory is the continuance of accounts of a trip to Washington DC on 8/10/1974….we take up where we left off with me in a car driving along (now I-95) and making comments on signs etc along the way: so here we go back a few years (ha ha):
“Explore St. Augustine”
Ah, now there’s a city –classic, so old, full of tourist attractions and yet above it all. It has seen too many things to be impressed by the minor invasions of a few, for the most part non-violent tourists. Lovely, very lovely. https://www.visitstaugustine.com/
Travel trailers get bigger every minute. The large life style of American camping.
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Multiple Rusty Wallace Collectible Items Mostly 1990’s A Few Older
$36.00
By-Passing Jacksonville (https://www.britannica.com/place/Jacksonville-Florida). I know very little about this city: It is the largest land area of any city in Florida and it was named for Andrew Jackson, once Florida’s governor, revered (by white man–left that out) but hated by the red man.
Florida land of gigantically wide rivers and in the background the few towers of Jacksonville (https://www.escapehere.com/destination/11-things-to-see-and-do-in-jacksonville-florida/?streamview=all ) . The water seems of slated fish and resembles a wrinkled sheet only gently stirred by the breeze.
Older FLorida houses have two story verandas–even the poor ones–but now they lean as if hoping that soon someone will let them rest and stop their usesless fight with gravity. Florida has a lot of poorer neighborhoods.
Took 295 which isn’t finished—should have read the signs. Oh well. Now look for 301 to right the wrong.
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Tiny Metal Hinged Lid Decorated Tea Pot by Ganz
$25.70
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Baldwin, Florida (https://florida.hometownlocator.com/nearby/places-of-interest,n,baldwin,lat,30.3077754974,lon,-81.9736633301.cfm)
“Off season”, “Closed”, an open Western Auto, streets lined with … tinsel from last Christmas… Its main dependence on a log mill? ….dead trees lying about…
Bryceville, Florida https://local.aarp.org/bryceville-fl/things-to-do/
Hardly a town at all, houses hiding behind trees…Rural places..holding families, lives hopes.
Callahan, Florida https://www.facebook.com/places/Things-to-do-in-Callahan-Florida/109343945752037/
Picture a traffic jam in a small town–road blocked by a funeral….
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Vintage 10 inch Pink Vintage Oblong Varied Sized Beaded Choker
$4.99
Back on the right route.
Georgia scrub trees and minor swamps. The lakes green as the shores or Ireland.
Off 95.–then on again–off again–game of an unfinished highway. Now the souvenirs and pecans.
End construction???
Trucks full of logs and watermelon on the ground. Trucks full of tirrs and peaches ripe from the trees.
The urban poor aren’t any better off—they just have more room to spread out the symbols of their poverty.
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Japanese Figures and Gold Trimmed 6 inch Porcelain Ash Tray Bowl
There seems to be a paint shortage—houses set peeling in a few cases, but in most they have so long forgotten paint that if it remains it is only an occasional lighter gray spot.
The land has changed from trees to the flat sand of the coast with its few stunted tree things.
Brunswick, Georgia https://www.goldenisles.com/discover/historic-brunswick/?gclid=CjwKCAjwtYXmBRAOEiwAYsyl3Ge46WtmO_gzxn1GN92G1GjLPE7Z67RwMuyjz55TbzNi2oueAFxlsRoC_2YQAvD_BwE
A port city and something in the part we’re in smells bad. We’re getting 21.4 MPG. Brunswick appears to be quite a large town complete with Drug Squad.
It has begun to rain and a distant thunder can be heard.
We travel past plantation houses, and slums, trees and burning dumps.
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Vintage Multiple colors and shaped Beaded Two Strands Necklace
Midway Georgia https://www.vacasa.com/usa/Georgia/Midway/Attractions/
Midway has a quaint old church, the kind that has a thousand window (maybe a few less) and a nice museum in a colonial style building. https://www.themidwaymuseum.org/
We’ve ran into rain again, but we missed most of the last storm.
Richmond Hill, Georgia https://www.exploregeorgia.org/city/richmond-hill
The cornfields seem a great improvement on the houses.
Savannah, Ga http://www.savannah.com/activities/
We always manage the worse part of every town. I’ve seen worse slums but this is the biggest junk yard I’ve ever see. I’ve also never seen a split log house. Old towns, viaducts, housing developments, gigantic toll bridges, freighters at dock. But the view from the bridge was well worth the 50cents.
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Six Inch Humming Bird and Flowers Bowl with Wooden Stand
Next week—Tues or Thurs we’ll go on into South Carolina
and check it out tomorrow for any interesting odds, ends and almost rans—if I have any they’ll be on tomorrow
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