vacation update
On Tuesday we visited Holly's parents in Andersonville, Georgia. And we went to the Andersonville National Historic Site and the National Prisoner of War Museum. I love Museums and this was no exception. My only regret is that we got there at 4:00 p.m. and they closed at 5:00 p.m. so there wasn't really enough time for me to give it the obsessive geeky scrutiny that it so richly deserved.
The site is the location of Camp Sumpter which was a prison camp where the Confederate Army kept Union POWs. From the National Park Service website:
On the way out we passed by a huge memorial that was put there by the great state of Wisconsin in memory of its soldiers that died there. I just searched for a picture of it, but couldn't find one. I'm sure there's one out there but I'm not going to spend all morning looking for it. Anyway, it's pretty impressive. There were other similar memorial stones from other states, but they were tiny, just like generic small cemetery stones. The Wisconsin memorial was huge. Thank god for good progressive, liberal Wisconsin governors like Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr., "best remembered for his support for direct election of United States Senators and opposition to big businesses," who commissioned the memorial. Anyway, Holly's grandma snapped a picture of it, as well as me posing in front of it, even though I don't think that people are allowed on the grass, let alone on the memorial stones. When I get a copy of those prints I'll scan them and post them here. Nana, I hope you are at least half as good a photographer as Holly, or none of the text on the stone will be visible!
Anyway, that was probably the coolest thing we've done so far on this vacation, besides just chilling out, swimming, watching movies, and some drinking. Truth be told, so far I've probably enjoyed this vacation a little more than Holly. I promise, the next time we both have a week off we will NOT use your mom's house as a hotel!
Anyway, today we are finally going to make it out to the Okefenokee Swamp Park for that boat tour, which should be pretty cool.
Doesn't look like we'll make it to Jacksonville after all. No biggie, and I have been there before. If zero is not cool at all and ten is the coolest imaginable, as far as cool cities go, Jacksonville seems to be about a four. There are a couple museums there that are probably worth seeing though.
Tomorrow though we hopefully will go to the beach at St. Simons Island and eat a seafood lunch at Mullet Bay.
It's at that point in the vacation where I'm still enjoying it and looking forward to what is left of it, but I'm also starting to look forward to getting back home. It's a good feeling.
The site is the location of Camp Sumpter which was a prison camp where the Confederate Army kept Union POWs. From the National Park Service website:
Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was officially known, was one of the largest of many Confederate military prisons established during the Civil War. It was built early in 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners kept in and around Richmond, Virginia, to a place of greater security and a more abundant food supply . During the 14 months the prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here. Of these, almost 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure to the elements.
On the way out we passed by a huge memorial that was put there by the great state of Wisconsin in memory of its soldiers that died there. I just searched for a picture of it, but couldn't find one. I'm sure there's one out there but I'm not going to spend all morning looking for it. Anyway, it's pretty impressive. There were other similar memorial stones from other states, but they were tiny, just like generic small cemetery stones. The Wisconsin memorial was huge. Thank god for good progressive, liberal Wisconsin governors like Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr., "best remembered for his support for direct election of United States Senators and opposition to big businesses," who commissioned the memorial. Anyway, Holly's grandma snapped a picture of it, as well as me posing in front of it, even though I don't think that people are allowed on the grass, let alone on the memorial stones. When I get a copy of those prints I'll scan them and post them here. Nana, I hope you are at least half as good a photographer as Holly, or none of the text on the stone will be visible!
Anyway, that was probably the coolest thing we've done so far on this vacation, besides just chilling out, swimming, watching movies, and some drinking. Truth be told, so far I've probably enjoyed this vacation a little more than Holly. I promise, the next time we both have a week off we will NOT use your mom's house as a hotel!
Anyway, today we are finally going to make it out to the Okefenokee Swamp Park for that boat tour, which should be pretty cool.
Doesn't look like we'll make it to Jacksonville after all. No biggie, and I have been there before. If zero is not cool at all and ten is the coolest imaginable, as far as cool cities go, Jacksonville seems to be about a four. There are a couple museums there that are probably worth seeing though.
Tomorrow though we hopefully will go to the beach at St. Simons Island and eat a seafood lunch at Mullet Bay.
It's at that point in the vacation where I'm still enjoying it and looking forward to what is left of it, but I'm also starting to look forward to getting back home. It's a good feeling.
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