Comfort Inn Madison

... room to get to the 'Jack in the Box' near to the motel. Everyone knows the best cure for a hangover is a shed load of greasy food and I duly obliged. About 10lbs of meat, 3 gallons of coke and a million chips later, I was done and feeling a whole lot better.

In the afternoon, I decided to go back to those shops that I had only been able to peer into yesterday. This time though, I pulled out all the stops and went on a bit of a ...

... eating and washing up.

A store completes the campground with just about everything one might need or forgot to pack. Plus, of course, helpful rangers all full of knowledge and pride in their park. Great gifties and t-shirts to commemorate your stay are available for purchase.

Andy and I chose this park because it is only about 30 miles east of Atlanta where I was taking a plane to California to visit my son ...

I wanted to spend more time in Athens, but because of all the problems going on, plans kind of got extremely disorganized and we went to Athens on a whim.

We basically ended up in a bar and grabbed dinner at The Grit (famous for vegetarian cuisine), while briefly cruising around town.

I felt sad and sentimental that I didn't get to tour it more, but then again I felt relief; I have another university to call my own, for I am also a NYU graduate. ;)

Hey y'all,

I tried to email everyone the pictures of my condo but AOL doesn't have enough storage space for the amount of pictures I took, so here they are!

In other news, I've applied to a few jobs and realized (again) that looking for a ...

... non building forest as it belongs to Georgia Power. So much to enjoy. We could build a life here and still be close enough to Florida to zip on down whenever we had a hankering to, without owning a house in a hurricane zone!! Could be a plan. We will keep looking for the magic to happen. We will know it when we find it.

We woke up and ate our last hotel continental breakfast. Then we let the kids swim in the pool as promised. We had the pool all to ourselves and the kids loved it. We only had a 6 hour drive left so we stayed there until checkout at 11 am. The kids were great in the car - watching ...

... How do they keep their arteries open around here? There were churches every mile (or more). We saw Carolina rice paddies - I never associated rice growing with southern US before.

We stopped at a State Park for lunch and had a picnic next to a lovely lake - there were few others there at first, but they all left and we had the park to ourselves. The temperature was in the high 20s and humid. We carried on down towards Charleston, seeing Azaleas and lots of ...

... bathrooms were the best we have ever seen. Her sense of color and depth (how deep to set various tiles and how much grout to remove) was hypnotic. We kept on staring at and feeling her wonderful work. The house itself has an open floor plan and lots of height. The materials are all natural and the craftsmanship is excellent. The colors of paint, wood and tile all blended together and made us feel completely relaxed and desireous not to leave. At one point we told them that ...

... boat holding up whatever he could, then he came back to the RV acting like a wet hen! Once I found out that he was OK and nothing but his dignity was lost, I helped him lay out his money and other things he had in his pockets to dry, etc. He then proceeded to pack up the boat and put it back on top of the Jeep. He still needed to take the outboard motor to a shop to service it before he can use it again. Thank goodness this happened in fresh water ...

... I have and that, WaLa, I'll be happy. The happiness I get from all my other interests will spill over into all aspects of my life and at least make my job tolerable, if not fun. It's a novel concept, I know, but realizing that idea is a daily challenge. I have nothing against working; I've always felt a certain flavor of satisfaction after focusing all my efforts for some tangible result. The problem is that I have this fairy tale idea that there is ...