Jefferson Davis Historic Site

Today we drove to Irwinville where Jeff Davis, his family and 20 Confederate soldiers and officials were captured by Union soldiers May 10, 1865.  He was fleeing to Texas after Richmond (the Confederate capitol fell and Lee surrendered) to continue the Lost Cause fight.  The site was marked by a wagon axle until this stone memorial was erected in 1935.

There is a small museum inside and we started by watching an 18 minute video of the events after Richmond, VA fell until Jeff was captured.

Guess what?  We saw some Confederate battle flags so not everyone is a wimp and wanting to be politically correct!  GOOD FOR THEM!

Jeff was surrounded by 2 Union patrols, one from Wisconsin and one from Michigan which had been tracking him, they both surrounded his party before dawn BUT neither Union patrol knew the other was there.  In the dark they started to fire at each other and two Michigan troopers were killed before they discovered their error.  They then focused on Jeff and his party while Jeff thought he was being defended by other Confederate troops.  Surprise!

Ashburn, GA

Well, we didn't manage to escape without getting wet towing.  We slept in and dumped our tanks and were on the road at 10:15 headed south in a drizzle.  We avoided Atlanta by skipping the expressways (for the most part) and traveling on secondary roads for the 232 mile trip to Ashburn arriving at 3pm.  It rained off and on the first 2 or 3 hours.  We lounged around inside after setting up and are now watching an old movie, Arsenic and Old Lace.  We record lots of oldies and watch them a few days later in the evenings.

Looks like a lot of cotton and peanuts are grown in this area.

Second week with the kids and kid's kids

                Friday night is pizza night so we all went out for pizza!  Here's Judy & I the first Friday night.

                                  And here's Jody and Renato and Dustin the second Friday night.

Now that I got out of my chair and backed up I have the whole group in the picture.  Added are Brianna, Judy and Renato's mom.  She returned from Brazil this week after spending a few months down there.

We made a second trip to Krystal's for breakfast, we like them and there are none up north.  We did some chores while we were out making stops at Home Depot, the grocery store and we checked out two COE campgrounds that are open year around.  We didn't like either of them, too many trees, small sites and hilly.

Well, we have been here two weeks already and have 3 more nights paid for at the campground but the weather turned bad two days ago, chilly, windy, wet and overcast.  Seems we arrived in the summer and will leave in the winter!  There is more rain forecast the rest of this week so we have decided to leave before our RV tanks are too full.  This COE park has no sewer hookups, like most COE parks, so once the tanks get full it's time to hook up and make a stop at the dump station.

Flowery Branch family

We have been spending the day at home and going to see Renato, Jody, Brianna and Dustin in the evenings for supper.  We have gone out a couple times to eat and Renato has cooked a couple times.  This morning we all went to Krystal.s for breakfast.

Judy doing the R and R thing with Jody& Renato shoving off in the background to return home and pick up Dustin & Brianna.  It's a 10 or 15 minute trip to their place from our campsite.

Lake Lanier toon ride!

Today Jody and Renato came to our campsite on their pontoon, beached it in front of us and loaded the old farts onboard and took us for a ride. 

                  Checking out a houseboat crossing in front of us.

We stopped at Fish Tales for lunch.

Tonights sunset.............. 

Old Federal COE campground

Today we made the 140 mile tow to Flowery Branch, GA to see Jody, Renato, Brianna and Dustin. We arrived about 1:30 at Old Federal Corp of Engineers campground about 10 or 15 minutes from their home.  We are on Lake Lanier until October 1.  We spent a couple hours visiting with them in ti evening.

Here's the view from our site.  It's late in the season and the campground closes in 17 days so it's pretty empty......good!  It's quite quiet, peaceful and dark at night.  

Waynesville, NC

We are in NC for 3 nights as we head south to Flowery Branch, GA to visit Jody and family.  We really have not done much here; went out to breakfast, washed the truck, went to the campground church service, and did a little grocery shopping.  Judy wanted BBQ for lunch but alas......one was closed today and the other stopped serving BBQ as their cooker doesn't work.  At least we got to use a membership park even though it was $19 a night.  The site isn't as nice as it looks......there is a busy road right behind us and the site is small.