Happy Thanksgiving!

Donna and I wish you the very best of Thanksgivings.   Travel safe and enjoy your time together when ever you can.

Pelham, AL

We had a great visit with Doug & Louise while at Stone Mtn, GA.  Unfortunately for this visit, the forest fires and resultant smoke made for some uncomfortable days in the greater Atlanta area.

Today we traveled over to Pelham to visit Dad & Anna.  This is our last planned stop before we return to Gulf State Park for the winter.  Less smoke here, but it looks a lot like California here in Alabama.  Almost 80 F when we pulled in plus the severe drought leads to that "golden" (dead) grass look you get out in California.  (And you thought they named California the "Golden State" for gold...silly you.)  We crossed one old lake in western Georgia that now looks like a flood plain with a small creek running through it.  Lake Logan Martin, while low, looked better than we expected.  Concrete boat launch pads still don't make it down to the water, but the lake looked healthy considering the current drought conditions.

For this stop we plan to be here through Thanksgiving.  Will try to get some visits in with other people, too, while here.  We're just winging it for the next week, though.

Anyway, that's it for this week.  Thanks for dropping by!  David

Stone Mtn, GA

We're back in Stone Mountain to visit Doug and Louise.  We're having nice days, but this area is suffering from a severe drought.  The lake is down some, but not near as much as the lakes to the east.  The campground has added additional flyers in the brochure packs on fire safety.  Could easily have been fire restrictions, so they're giving campers a break.  There are forest fires to the north, so at times the park does fill with smoke.

I normally don't discuss politics on the internet, but yesterday was an enjoyable day for me.  I didn't think either Clinton or Trump were worthy presidential candidates, and I voted accordingly.  I didn't vote for either of them.  My hope was that neither candidate had enough electoral votes to win on Wednesday morning, and that a third party would take one state.  But that's not what happened.  However, I got to enjoy watching pundits back pedal.  The stock market went up despite the dire predictions of as much as a 20% drop.  (To quote an old Star Trek Klingon line, "Perhaps one day, but not today.")  Mark Cuban had to act adult.  Some of the elitist entertainers who said they'd leave if they're favorite candidate didn't win now have to put up or shut up. (And if you "shut up", we all now know your words are meaningless.)  And our famous, Nobel Peace Prize winning economist who advised the Obama administration that it was better to keep borrowing and pay back the public debt at a higher interest rate demonstrated - once again - that he didn't have a clue what he was talking about, either.  Oh, and let's not forget all those peace loving, all inclusive progressives who demonstrated (rioted?) in Portland, OR.  Now that's a show of tolerance all Americans can all get behind!

Personally, I expect little to change.  Democrats have enough to filibuster in the senate.  If you sat six  Republicans down and asked them the same question, you'd get at least seven different answers.  Yep, that's a tight knit group there - some of whom seem to be the party of "No" now matter what the subject is.  Plus, they're all politicians, and politicians rarely do anything big.  (Anyone seen an approved, signed federal gov't budget lately?)  So I suspect it's never as bad as it seems - though I'm real good at making it seem that way.  And it's probably never as good as it seems, either.

See ya! David

High Point, NC

After finishing up with all our planned visits at Fredericksburg, we moved down to High Point, NC today.  Plan to be here over the weekend visiting friends and eating too much...just like everywhere else.  Had good weather for the trip down.  This is another stop that we usually get a lot of rain, but the drought has put a dent in that for this visit.  Looking forward to seeing everyone while we're here. Current plans are to continue moving south on Monday. David