Yeah, We're Still Here (Short Update)

I can report we didn't take a single picture the 10 days that Karen and Tom were here:-(  But I can attest to the fact we had HH every single day, lunches together almost every single day, and a few dinners, solved a lot of the world's problems, and we all got to experience the election.  We also did some sightseeing and had some fun.

Squeezed in an appointment with the oral surgeon and was okayed for an implant where he removed my tooth, that will be next year.   We had the motorhome washed, and since then over 3 days Jan has completely waxed it.  We've had to move sites 3 times, but get to stay in our present site until we leave.

We've since said goodbye to Karen and Tom, but before they left we had a great visit with one of Tom's sister's, Teresa and her husband, Bill in their beautiful home, including a delicious dinner.

Now we have started our busy, busy week, with eye exams, glasses ordered, dermatologist and dentist still to go.

We are looking forward to next week when our son, Jason, and our DIL Joanne come to visit and celebrate an early Thanksgiving.

Unfortunately we have had two issues come up, a coolant leak, very small, thankfully that we have to tackle,

although in a tight spot so it might be a challenge, and a faulty porch light.

With the time change and it getting dark so early we need a little light in the evening and all of a sudden, no warning at all, the porch light quit.  Okay, must be the bulbs, it's fluorescent so off to the store for new ones, pop them in and.......nothing.  So, of course ignoring the KISS principal I went directly to the fuses, none there, then to the switch, and in trying to switch the switch out managed to break it.  Fixed that, still no light so went online to try to find a new one.  Well, it's not available anymore, great, so we tried to pick out a new replacement, not keen on that because everything we've seen is LED and brilliant, not what we like.  So as I am pulling it down I said to Jan, you know I should wire it up bypassing the switch that is on the unit, and see if it works.  Well, that did it, problem solved.

That white knob is the switch, never used since it is 8' off the ground.

So a little more than 3 weeks to go here and we're off to Florida.

Back in North Georgia

Left you in Charleston, actually a campground outside of Charleston, not so hot really, but decent location.  We went into town and had lunch at an institution, Hyman's.  Been there since 1890!  It was very nice, great service, great food, very interesting, our table had a plaque saying Kevin Costner ate there:-)  

We had delicious she-crab soup with light as a feather wonderful hush puppies.

Sea bass croquette, shrimp, and collards

Grouper, oysters, and a grit cake

Then we walked the streets for an hour or so, the weather was perfect.

Then we moved farther south to Savannah, and stayed at a new place for us, Red Gate Farm.  It is a working farm and event venue place, nice but the traffic noise was intense.  We wanted to find oysters while we were there as the last hurrah for a while.  We searched and searched, and we really didn't feel like going into downtown, both if us have been there many times before, but we hit pay dirt when we found Bluffton Oyster in the quaint town of Bluffton, SC.  We splurged on  two dozen oysters, fried shrimp, fried oysters, and had a cup of delicious clam chowder.  An excellent lunch!

The other thing we wanted to do while in the Savannah area was to get a lot of fresh shrimp to freeze.  We were very successful, and between two seafood markets picked up 8 pounds of fresh off the boat shrimp.

Then we headed north to Woodruff, SC near Greenville-Spartanburg to another not so hot campground, Fireside, kind of like a work camp, we even cut out a night early, but saving grace we found a delicious Vietnamese restaurant, Lemongrass in Spartanburg, so all was not lost:-)

The Banh Mi and the beef pho were wonderful!

Then since we cut out early we ran over to another uninspiring campground in Toccoa for a quick overnight, then on to Ellijay, GA to Talona Ridge, where we had a surprise visit from Jan's sister, Karen and Tom, in fact they pulled in an hour after we did.  And they told us they were staying for more than a week!  Great news, we have a lot to catch up on, it's been since the spring since we've seen them.  There will be many lunches, dinners, and Happy Hours to come.