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Jekyll Island Georgia.

A most interesting Island. In the 1880's it was the Winter home for the movers and shakers of the time. Rockefellers etc. They built a 100+ room club and later cottages (20 -30 room). The whole area is now on the Historic Register and being restored. Club membership was by invitation only. It was one of the locations on the first trans continental telephone call. As transportation improved in the 30s and 40s, South Florida became the Winter location of choice and Jekll Island fell out of favor. By the 60s the homes were all but abandoned. The State bought the island and is in progress of preserving the buildings. At one point, the club members built the first “condo” in the US. By law 60% of the island has to remain undeveloped...

There is a deep water port here at Brunswick GA. And 10% of the US cars that are exported overseas, go out of here. 600,000 cars last year. The ships that carry them are really strange looking, but I guess they do the job. They drive them on and off the ships. It was fun watching them being loaded. They seem to load out one ship every 24 hours.

We're off to Savanna today, and plan to spend several days exploring there.

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Fort McAlister GA

We noticed on the way up yesterday (80 whole miles) that we are pushing the bloom line. The Red Bud trees are just blooming here and the trees in general are just leafing out. We're near the ton of Richmond Hill, just South of Savanna, it turns out that Henry Ford and his family used to Winter here.