FDR State Park. Warm Springs Ga

Went to see Roosevelt's Little White House.  An amazing ,brave person.

Photos from FDR

Little White House & Larger Than Life Man

   Toured FDR's Little White House. Ah....what an exemplary progressive...the embodiment of the pure humanist--held America together during the darkest hours of the Depression; held us together during the darkest hours of WWII; coped with dreadful polio and always in lock step with his American brothers & sisters---be they Appalachian shanny poor or titans of Wall Street---he always searched for the good in others.

   Included, are LWH photos---a favorite of mine being the partially finished oil paint portrait underway when he died in Warm Springs at the Little White House, on April 12, 1945---only weeks before the end  of WWII which had caused him immense angst. He loathed all war but had no choice when Pearl Harbor was bombed.

   Twenty-eight degrees this AM, though a glorious day thereafter.  Hiked a bit through winter brown hardwoods---flora with its own sort of beauty, while  here and there, tall, tall, skinny pines swayed and purred in the wind. Just hooked up the EGG to the truck. Did some research and state parks on the Gulf are filled with snowbirds. Thus, we're pointing the nose more due-west to Quitman, Miss., and by sheer coincidence, the same park we stayed in en route, circuitously to Big Bend National Pk. on the Mexican border in southwest Texas. In spite of this big country, it'll be twice in the crossroads town of Quitman & maybe even three times in Cut and Shoot, Texas---that's right, twice. Is there something wrong with us and our travels. Who knows...who cares.

   Later.....

Humbug Hamburg

   Planned on staying night one at Hamburg St, Pk., Ga., where we'd stayed en route to Big Bend Nat. Pk. down on the Mex. Border in West Tex., but "...the best laid plans..." being what they are, Hamburg was closed due to budget cuts, so we ended up at AH Anderson St. Pk., Ga. It seems that Ole AH was the VP of the Confederacy & still held in high esteem. 

   The setting was amongst huge loblolly pines with pine straw all about and the wind piping up, what with the high pressure settling in and tall, tall pines swayed with differing tempos and their green needles purred with the wind and we needed some alcohol and it was getting cold and well in to dusk so we went to the EGG, stepped inside, closed the hatch and turned on the heater. All night the pines purred. Ann said it sounded like a gentle ocean surf at night. I agreed.

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3/13/14--day 2

   Burrr.....This AM it was 32 and our little heater wasn't up to the task so we wore jackets, stayed in bed and drank hot tea. Then the stark edge of the morning sun sun came through the east windows and helped the heater along the heater and we had oatmeal with raisins, bacon, eggs and more tea then packed up the H20 hose the elec. hookup and got underway.  We're just now in Warm Springs, Ga., at FDR St. Park. More later.  I'm outside at a concrete picnic table, it's 6PM, the sun is slipping behind the the ridge and I'm shivering, so it off to the EGG..... 

  

FDR State Park

Pine Mountain Ga.  Beautiful.

I Ain't Making No Plans & I'm Stickin To-Em

   The title says it all. It's the experienced sailor's maxim. There are too many variables e.g., wind direction/intensity, distance traveled,  boat equipment/motor failure, etc., for definitive planning. In short, you "give it up and don't fight it" because the medium is the boss. It's different, folks--a different way of feeling--a "groove".
    Having been out in "the world"
      

Beaufort NC

Hot , hot.  Glad to be here.  We plan to anchor out for a couple of days and enjoy until cold front blows through.