Today (Friday July 23rd) we left
Americus Georgia and headed for Mississippi via Alabama
As a footnote to yesterday, before
we went to bed we had a violent but short Thunderstorm came through.
They are really serious about their storms here. They tell you to
stay away from the windows and stay on the first floor.
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This morning we stopped in Plains
Georgia to see if we could catch sight of Jimmy and Rose
This is the whole downtown of Plains.
I think if were not for Jimmy the town's economy would be hurting.
JImmy's home is nearby and is not much different from when he built it
in the sixties. He built most of the furniture in the house and never
has let fame change him. He teaches a Sunday School Lesson at the
local church every Sunday and it is open to the public and he will stick
around for you to get a photo with him if you like.
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Here is the school Jimmy went to
in his childhood. It is now a Jimmy Carter National Park
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Have you ever heard of Kudzu?
Well it is like our blackberries in the West and takes over everything.
It climbs up trees, poles etc...
Here you can see how it climbed
up some tree's
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Here I stopped to take a picture
and it attacked our car. Only the quick thinking on my part and a
rapid get away saved us from disaster.
We didn't have much luck with genealogy
in Alabama so we decided to travel to Mississippi tonight to check out
her relatives that lived there. We have made reservations to be in
New Orleans Sunday night. We are not sure where we will stay tomorrow,
but it will probably be in Louisiana somewhere
We have been using a new toy on
this trip. It is a Garmin GPS III+. I hook it up to our
laptop and it graphically lets us know where we are going. This may
sound a bit silly, but when in a strange town it is easy to miss a turn
and get lost. The GPS lets you know exactly where you are and continually
updates your route with distance, speed, and ETA among many things that
it does. I wish we could have had it years ago. The GPS itself
has detailed maps of the US that you load into it and identifies every
church and cemetery we go by. A boon for genealogists.
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