i am lonely without any body to play, as all my friends are always away; always with my bat and ball but no one is going to play. [View Full Entry]

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WISE BLOOD In March of this year I began "Only Connect" with the unstated purpose of finding someone who was very close to me, but whom I had not yet met. It was a kind of "Hail Mary Pass". Also a stated purpose, and also true: the blog is a lifeline for me on the road, to stay in touch with friends and family, new and old. The connection was successful beyond my wildest dreams. Last week, my last trip of the year, I was in Milledgeville, Georgia, visiting the house and grounds of Andalusia, where the wonderful and wonderous Flannery [View Full Entry]

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I am in at work today for a half day of wrapping things up, though the phone calls will likely continue right into the flight to Jo'burg. Jennifer is sleeping in and wrapping up the usual program at the house. Musings I've heard and read a variety of opinions on how southern Africa will be. Not entirely certain what to expect, but despite the crime rate, despite the disease, despite the wild beasts, the greatest danger on that trip will be the amount of driving I will do. Driving is always dangerous, especially in what has become the familiar roads of [View Full Entry]

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Interesting day on the ditch. Left Kilkenny Creek near Richmond Hill, Ga. We stayed there for two days waiting out weather. Left this morning at 7:00. For some reason my wind meter which hasn't worked for three years decided to work. It read 29 knots going through St Catherines Sound.Thewind blew pretty much 20 to 25 all day. Kept blowing my hat off. Very irritating. We ran aground in the Little Mud River. Four feet in the middle of the channel. Another sail boat ran aground on the right side of the channel. The wind blew me off the bottom just [View Full Entry]

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Left the anchorage yesterday ar 7:00 am, Wanted to get past St Catherines sound before we anchored but the weather looked bad and my chart plotter has started losing sattelite connection when it rains. Came up a little creek to a small area with an old but run down marina and a little restaurant and a few houses. It is near a town called Richmond Hill, GaAnchored up from the houses and dinghyed to the restaurant in 15 kt wind and rain. It was great restaurant though, warm and good food. I had crabcakes and baked flounder with keylime pie for [View Full Entry]

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Pulled up anchor this morning going to Savannah but talked to a guy and his wife that were anchored in the creek that had just left and they had a bad experience so we came back to the anchor we had last night and decided to wait out the weather. Put up the tarp and mixed a screwdriver and watched the rain. The temperature is warm so it was really pretty nice and relaxing. Winds light from the east. . May leave tomorrow and may be in Florida Thursday or Fri. Storm seems to have really calmed down so don't think [View Full Entry]

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the bus is nearing the airport now: i can see the planes landing and taking off. this place is huge. i have to keep telling myself i can do this. today is the first time i have been inside the airport or outside. i m getting sick on the stomach now. these planes are huge. but the money has been spent so there is no turning back now. the time is now 2:40 and i am inside the airport. i must admit for a while i was lost: this place is huge. so i have checked in for my flight and [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so it is done... I have purchased my tickets for my trip to Morocco, Africa. I am set to depart Atlanta next Thursday night heading for Paris, France. There is a 4 hour layover here, and then I go on to arrive in Casablanca, Morocco Friday afternoon. I must say that I am very excited about seeing Africa, but I am scared out of my mind about the airplane ride. I will be a first-time flyer. I have a million questions about everything. I have found a ton of info for first-timers on the web, so that was a [View Full Entry]

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The alarm clock went off at 4:45 a.m. This usually would not be a problem but I am currently on night shift at the PD and this is the time of morning that my body is getting ready for bed, not getting up. On top of that, this is the first out of state trip I have made on the bike since my accident and I was a little nervous; causing me to not sleep very well. I was scheduled to meet my friend Andy in Graniteville, SC at 7 a.m., which meant that I had to be on my way [View Full Entry]

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Stone Mountain - 7th October Arrived at Stone Mountain at about 5pm. Stone Mountain is situated just outside Atlanta and is park with its main focal point a massive granite hill (they like to call it a mountain) surrounded by lakes and woodland. The granite hill had a very impressive sculpture carved in it, in fact it it is the largest base relief sculpture in the world, and is a Confederate Memorial Carving that depicts three Confederate leaders of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (and their favorite horses, "Blackjack, [View Full Entry]

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