Our Travel Blog

That applies to both the weather and myself. We reached 21C during the afternoon, not quite shorts weather but getting close. Did the weekly grocery shopping, well Lyn shopped and I caused havoc pushing the shopping cart.

Today was the grass cutting day, a team of 8 descended on the place and took all day to cut, trim edge and blow away the grass. End result was a good looking campsite but a very noisy day.

The weather promises to get warmer, so we have booked a trip on one of the local shrimp boats for Wednesday evening.

Still cool, low last night was 2.7 outside and 6.7 inside, tonight the heating stays on! Having managed to develop a slight cold, most of the day was spent inside. Temperature went up to 17, but it was quite windy.

A number of people left early this morning, seems this is a stopping off site for Florida as there are only half a dozen or so long term campers.

Would you guys keep your cold weather up there!

According to the local met gurus, Cold Canadian Air is responsible for the current cold snap. 3C overnight rising to 15C during the day. At least we`ve proved that the fire and furnace work.

Spent most of the day playing with the ham radio gear and my new e-Book reader.

Learned one thing about small BBQ’s, their temperature rises exponentially when the wind drops. BBQ was set up for around 300 to do some potatoes, this temperature was steady for about 20 minutes, so didn’t check it again. 20 minutes later went out to do the ribs and the BBQ was up at 600!!! The bottom layer of potatoes were well beyond crispy, cremated may be a better word.

Well, after a wet day yesterday we woke to clear blue skies and COLD, ok it’s all relative but it was only 7C!!

We were on the road by 9AM to got to Savannah about 80 miles North. The plan was to take a Hop On – Hop Off bus tour of the historical part of the city. The tour was fine, but Lyn and I both had a (wrong as it turned out) pre-conceived idea of what we would see. We were expecting large, colourful mansion / plantation houses on 1+ acre lots. In reality there were a lot of mansions, but they were mostly brick and had little or no land. Despite that we had a great tour driver and learned a fair bit about the city.

We went to a riverside seafood place and had a great lunch. The weather remained cool around 15C with blustery winds

Next stop was a River trip on the Savannah River, unfortunately this was not really worth it. Again we were expecting to see mansions and gardens on the river, all we saw were a number of dockyards, silos, container ports and a large pile of saw dust destined for Ikea in Sweden.

Rather than take the tour bus back to our truck we took a walk throught the Old City Market, this was more a series of a street cafes rather than a retail market. All in all it was an interesting (and apaert from the boat tour) worthwhile trip. On the way home Lyn raided JoAnn fabrics and got a lot of stuff she wanted / needed / desired. I paid a trip to Barnes and Noble to pick up a “nook” e-Book reader to replace the one that died recently

The title says it all!

Well the day started off bad, and didn’t improve too much. Due to an annoying cough I had to get up a couple of times during the night.

After breakfast I set about tyring to fix my APAD (like an IPAD) book reader. One of the buttons was misbehaving. I just about had it fixed when it slipped out of my hands and hit the edge of a table, cracking the screen. Well the switch was fixed, the crack hardly showed BUT the touch screen only worked to the right of the crack, which was only an inch or so from the right side of the screen 🙁

Later in the day, I removed a stereo plug from the computer, unfortunately the last 1/8″ or so came off the plug and stayed inside the socket. About an hour later I finally coaxed it out. This time there was no further damage to the computer, unlike the APAD.

Weather was dull and cool (20C), although t-shirt and shorts were still the dress code of the day. We went back to St Simons Island and drove around parts we missed last week-end. There were some VERY large houses up the north end of the island. We went back to the beach where the “Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” had been held last week-end and it was deserted, we maybe saw about 10 people on a mile of beach.

Today was the first not so good day weather wise. Cloudy, drizzle and about 20C. We’ve been here 2 weeks now and we’re still both alive….. shot a few peoples predictions down!

Another antenna arrived today for my Ham Radio set up, unfortunately it was a bit too windy to risk going up on the roof, so I strung it up in the bushes next to the trailer. Plugged it in, and it worked like a charm!

Spent the rest of the day hooking the transmitter up to the computer, I was pleased to see that I hadn’t lost my touch when it comes to making a mess all over the trailer with tools, cables etc…. just like home!

The wind has been gusty all day, now it is getting strong enough to start rocking the trailer, although at 10,000 lbs it shouldn’t move too far!

Finally, the remote control WE left behind has arrived. Now we can start watching the movies and TV episodes that I downloaded without having to boot the laptop into Linux, connect to the external hard drive, copy to the windows area of the laptop, boot into windows and connect the laptop to the TV. Kind of took the enjoyment out of watching the programme. Thank-you Catriona.

Today was a shopping day, groceries in the morning, and off to explore the larger stores in the afternoon; Target, Lowes, Michaels (couldn’t avoid it, but I got suckered in by Lyn pointing out that there was a Circuit City right next door, unfortunateley the only thing Circuit City about the store was the sign, the rest was an empty shell).

In future my sister Hazel, has volunteered to provide titles for the blogs if I can’t come up with a suitable one……. should be interesting!

The hardest part of writing this blog is coming up with a title each day!

Another warm and pleasant day, time to clean more of the trailer. To do today’s cleaning required I put one of the slides in. No big issue, just move a couple of the chairs and make sure there is nothing in the way. Slide in, clean the outside and slide out. All went well, apart from a few pieces of cable lying on the ground.

When I put up my radio antenna a few days ago, I coiled up the excess wire and hung it under the slide out. Said coil of wire got rather intimate with the slide out mechanism! Spent the next two hours rewiring the antenna.

Went for a walk this afternoon to the lake. Took along some old bread to feed the resident coots. Found plenty of coots, but every time we threw out the bread, they flew away! At least the fish were thankful for the extra food.

After all, it is Saturday so a lazy(ier) day was in order. The cooler weather continues, so I took advantage and washed a bit more of the trailer. Another 5 days and I should have it finished…. no sense in rushing these things.

Lyn’s computer went on a go slow, so spent some time speeding it up, then off for a bike ride around the local sub-divisions.

Finally tried my hand at some baking, every time  I go back to the UK mum makes bread pudding for me, I got the recipe many years ago in the hope that Lyn would make one…… I am still waiting. Anyway, apart from a slightly burnt base, not sure if that was due to the small oven or my inability to select the correct temperature, it tasted OK, not as good as Mums but OK