Work Day

Today was a work day.  We had to pick up the coach at the Cummins Diesel shop in Port Wentworth (where Eli Whitney created his first cotton gin. Honest!) and drop it at the Boats N RV shop at Ridgeland.  Whew!  So much work and TWO appointments to meet in the same day!  Unheard of.

So first we went to the Bluffton Library just off Hilton Head Island. Books for sale but none Mona needed. Then south 25 miles to one of the Savannah, Georgia, libraries.  A wonderful original, this 100 year old, Carnegie built structure  very much in its as built condition. No books for sale though, so onward and upward.

 

Then we drove out to the ancient Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. 

Most recently famous as the home of the statue used as a meeting place in the book , “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”. The statue has been removed from the cemetery and placed in the Savannah Museum because so many people were chipping pieces off of it.  Good people can become horrid vandals with just the right, or wrong, amount of motivation.

Its also the burial site of many famous men and women of the past 300 years but again, more recently of Johnny Mercer and Conrad Aiken, two legendary cultural greats of the 20thy century.

Lunch by the tombs with our good books was followed by a short drive into old town Savannah which, for once, really DOES have a historical downtown. 

Forsythe Park is the largest city park in this town of many parks. Street buskers with guitars and banjos and voices, today at least, better left home. 

An artist class from the local art school all working on the same architectural style sketches of the main walk, fountain and monument in the center of the park.

 

The central fountain itself, placed here before the Civil War and as beautiful as the day it first sprayed water.

We drove our west of savannah to the Cummins shop and met Debi, our contact person and Devin, our Tech, who told us we need to bring the coach back after the work at B n RV in Ridgeland. 

They completed the generator oil & filter change all right but they must get the broken hose on the turbo charger made locally since it is not a make they can find from any of their sources.

No problem.  We’re retired.  No deadlines, and no worries.  Besides, they have a very nice set of full hookups in their fenced in lot and a dump station beside, all at no cost to customers. And Tybee Island beach is only 45 minutes away.  We’ll survive.

So we drove the coach north to Ridgeland, met a wonderful service tech up their named AJ who went over the coach with a fine tooth comb as he checked us in and he feels he will have the small leak repaired with no problem.

As for the water softener, that would take too long to order in so we’ll hold off and maybe buy a portable unit that hooks up outside the coach, in synch with our exterior standard filters, when we get to the southwest US.

Back home for dinner in the villa and a dish of ice cream to go to bed by.

-Ken