Tuesday, May 17, 2011
We are currently on Jekyll Island in Georgia. This is near the southern tip by Brunswick and Jekyll is part of the "Golden Isles of Georgia". After arriving today, we explored a bit and strolled the neato seaside village on St. Simons and had an ice cream. Tomorrow, well ride the bikes around the island and explore the village and historic areas. The island is 7.5 miles long and has 20+ miles of paved marked bike trails, so that will be fun.
Yesterday we explored the town of St. Augustine whilst the RV was at the Ford dealer for the intermittent missing problem (more later). St. Augustine is supposed to be the oldest town in the US, Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The pix above is of Castillo de San Marcos, a Spanish fort built in 1672 to help protect it's sea trade. It is built from a stone called coquina, which has a high shell content, so the rock is soft enough to absorb cannon balls rather than have them shatter the walls. We tool a 3-hr historic trolley ride about town and saw quite a few nice sights including the fountain of youth (huh?) and a lot of more serious landmarks.
The campground we stayed at in St. Augustine was Anastasia State Park, with a very 'jungly" feel to the sites and a great wide beach on the Atlantic. (This is the first time I ever body surfed the Atlantic!)
OK - the RV repairs ... So the Ford dealer had it all day and could never find anything wrong. It's a pretty intermittent problem that seems to happen when the RV gets real warm and the AC is on. Kind of hesitates and surges going up hills or accelerating hard. But, it hasn't occurred the last two drives and of course it wouldn't happen for them either, so they didn't charge us anything. If it gets to be a problem, we find another dealer, but for now, it's not really a big problem for us.
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