Saturday, April 10, 2010
Today is a driving day. We say our good byes to Bea and Vicki and head north, avoiding I-95 as we follow the Old Dixie Highway, thoroughly enjoying our ride. We make stop in Palm Coast, FL for a short visit with Mary's oldest sister, Anne and her husband Dick. We eat a pizza lunch with them and share in some pleasant conversation.
We are back on the road at 2:00pm and head for St Augustine. We walk some of the back streets in St Augustine and visit a gallery where we are entertained by a lively Newark, NJ transplant, who having owned the gallery and lived in St Augustine for the last 7 years, admits that it is time for her to move on. It seems the "Pirate Paraphernalia" shop next door is having far more success selling pop guns! The artwork, mostly scenic, is by local artists. We peruse the gallery walls as the owner carefully packages a fern Caroly found on the street.
We're traveling north, again, we begin to encounter heavy traffic and soon we are crawling along. We exit I-95 and take our favorite side road, US 17. We drive into Brunswick, GA, the surrounding wetlands beautiful and seemingly pristine...the gateway a spectacular suspension bridge. We travel on US 17 for quite a stretch, the scenery revealing mobile homes or a cabin, here and there, being slowly overrun and reclaimed by the low country jungle. We stop, just past Savannah, in Port Wentworth, GA, having just enough energy to eat some local seafood and get some much needed sleep.St Augustine, FL
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