Sadly we left St. George Island this morning after being there less than 24 hours, but that was the only vacancy that we could get when we started booking camping spots in February!
FINAL PIX FROM ST. GEORGE ISLAND
Site #3, Dr. Julian Bruce State Park, St. George Island, FL S
Found this tree frog in the electrical box this morning!
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The bridge back to the mainland from St. George Island
Breakfast at the Sand Dollar in Port St. Joe
Better than a full Monty
On to Plains
Leaving Port St. around 10 AM after that disgustingly good breakfast, we headed for Plains, GA, to visit several of the President Jimmy Carter sites. The 300 mile route to Plains was straight as an arrow, and flat as a pancake as we headed north to the Georgia border. As we approached Georgia, the pine barren waste land gave way to green productive farms, and the closer we got Plains, the more prosperous the farms appeared.
Earl Carter purchased this farm in 1928, and like any children growing up on farms, young Jimmy had plenty of chores. There was no indoor plumbing for the first ten years that the Carters lived there. Jimmy, an Anapolis graduate, gave up his career in the Navy to run the family farm when his father died in 1953.
Jimmy's bedroom. Notice the books in corner which included Treasure Island. Jimmy loved to read and one of his school teachers, Miss Julia, recognized he was something special and gave him War and Peace to read when he was 12.
The Carters had a clay tennis court and Jimmy and Earl often played each other.
Jimmy, age 97, and Roslyn, age 94, still live in the same house they built in 1961. It's now well protected and inaccessible for public viewing. The ranger at the visitors' center said the President is now confined to a wheel chair, so he doesn't get around.
The audio guide to his boyhood home included tapes that the President recorded, making it even more touching. Certainly in my life time we have not had a more honorable man in the White House. The more I learn about Jimmy Carter the more I like him.
