Blogs from Augusta, Georgia, United States, North America

Goodness, it’s been a long time since I made a post about my travels. Unfortunately, in the past few years, I had to make some major changes to my life. So I am not able to travel as much as I want. Well, I have taken a few trips back to Korea and even did a stint in Thailand and Cambodia but neglected to write about it. The first reason is that I got married a couple of years ago and am now a Mom! Anyway, enough about me and lets talk about where I am now. So I am currently in Augusta, GA this week for the Masters tournament. My job is sending me there to give our readers a Masters sports betting update. It’s my first assignment out of the office that I have ... read more

Wow! Having watched the Masters Golf tournament on TV for years, I had no idea how much more beautiful Augusta, Georgia is in person. The fairways and greens were so sculpted they looked fake. We looked and couldn't find even one weed. It started out as a beautiful morning and just continued to get more beautiful as the day wore on. The azaleas were blooming in profusion. Whites, pinks, reds, purples, salmon colored...Beautiful. There were dogwood trees in bloom too. Whites, pinks and yellows. The magnolia trees were covered with lavender wisteria blossoms hanging from the trunks. Everywhere you looked there were flowers or flowering trees. We walked into Augusta National and immediately saw the huge "Masters' scoreboard. It has flags on top from every country that has a player involved. We walked up along the ... read more

Received an e-mail from an old Army buddy from my Fort Gordon, GA days. He reminded me of my days with the Military Police. Way back in the 1970’s at Ft. Gordon, GA, I enforced military law for the U.S. Army as a Military Police (MP) patrol supervisor. My job at Ft. Gordon as an MP supervisor was interesting and I enjoyed my job. As a patrol supervisor I supervised approximately 15 MP’s on various shifts. These MP’s were on facility entrance and exit gates, MP desk operations center duty, and of course some were on police vehicle patrol of the facility. My job as an MP supervisor was going along just fine, I enjoyed the job, and that should have told me something was about to happen! Sure enough, life changed dramatically when I was ... read more

11th August. Our first 'bad' day. The promise of a scenic route following the Savannah River Scenic byway didn't materialise. See . OK it was probably a lot do to with the heat and the fact we didn't have time to 'off route' to some of the more scenic attractions suggested, and it was better than a plain highway as it was tree lined most of the way and fairly quite for the most part - but nothing of real interest, dead straight and nothing near the actual river for most of the way. It wasn't helped by temperatures of 94 F. over most of the 160 + miles. Most of the way there are sad looking settlements with closed shops and factories. People are living in real poverty - tumble down shacks right next to ... read more