Day Three - South of the Border - South Carolina

January 16th - South of the Border 52 degrees

We left Roanoke Rapids this morning at 10:00 as planned. It was 22 degrees when we awoke this morning. Lou had unhooked our water last evening and probably was a good thing, as the hose was frozen solid.

It did warm up quickly as we drove down interstate 95, we noticed that the meridians had been tilled and some type of flowers had been planted there and along the forest lines on the other side. There they sat just awaiting warm temperature and sunshine to show their beauty to all of the passerby’s.

As we were rolling along we noticed a sign near Kenley, North Carolina telling of a Tobacco Farm Life Museum which was located in Johnston County. I mentally put that on my list of museums that I would like to attend. I have always been a huge fan of any museum and the problem here is Lou has already been to almost everyone that I can think of and his idea of visiting a museum is to quickly walk through and I like to read and almost study what I see, so we have to compromise on our visits.

We are enjoying the Frank Sinatra CD’s that Krista gave me for Christmas as we are traveling and as we were going through Goldsboro, NC we saw a sign for Ava Gardner Museum, well don’t you know that fit right in with the Frankie CD’s and that prompted discussion on movies that we had long ago enjoyed that he had starred in along with Ava Gardner. June is also a Frankie fan, so the guys are going to have a rough trip listening to “ole blue eyes”. In fact, June is borrowing my “coffee table book” of the life of Frankie to enjoy over the miles and we are sharing the CD’s.

We arrived at South of the Border at 1:30 this afternoon and found the temperature to be 52 degrees, we had driven 173 miles. We plan to be here two nights. We have stayed hooked up and will walk to a restaurant this evening and use these two days to get caught up on rest and regroup a bit.

We do not have internet service her, do have to go to the office to get on line and will do that to post the blog. Do have good cell phone coverage; however, my phone is on silence and we can not get it off, so I just check every now and then for messages and will call back.

When we leave here we will travel to King’s Bay, Georgia and will stay there for three days, we will be in their overflow camping. This is a Naval Submarine Base. We will have water and electric. Then we go to Mayport, Florida and stay at a Naval Station for eleven days and after that we have not made definite plans.