Wednesday, 9/17, we went out to Patriots Point to see the USS Yorktown CV10. This ship was built in 1943 and served in the active Navy until 1975.
She has been turned into a floating Museum. Almost all of the ship is tourable. There are 6 different tours to different parts of the ship. What a great experience for me as well as Brenda. She now has a general idea of what I'm talking about when I speak of the time I was in the Navy.
There were 3 other ships there, and they were open to the public.
There was a submarine, a destroyer, and a Coast Guard Cutter.
The submarine was commissioned just at the end of WWII, s she saw no combat. She was eventually replaced by a nuclear submarine navy. Going through her was very interesting. Everything is so cramped and small.
The Destroyer is the USS Laffey. She was built as a replacement to the original USS Laffey, which was sunk during the battle of Midway. It brought back some memories, not good and not bad, just memories.
I didn't reallize that CG Cutters were so large. They were doing some extensive reconstruction to her, so allot of the ship was closed. All in all a great day.
We left Charleston on Thursday and headed to Augusta, Ga.
Bela Humphries and his family live in a town nearby. He and I went to nursing school together. We haven't seen each other in over 15 years.
We stayed in a RV park fairly close to where they live. Bela called after he got home from work, and rode over on his motorcycle. We talked for a while then left for Valerie's (his wife) work.
After a tour of her church (she is an ordained minister), we left for downtown for dinner. We had an enjoyable evening, full of good food and good conversation. We went to another place for dessert. The tiramasu was very good.
Kaetlyn, there daughter, had soccer practice so she didn't join us for dinner.
While we were having dessert, she called with a crisis, so, Valerie went home to her, and Bela went back to the coach and left on his MC. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see Kaetlyn.
We left the next morning and because it was freeway driving drove all the way to Meridian, MS. The next day we moved the coach over to Vicksburg, MS. We went to the casinos for several hours and Brenda won a few dollars. I didn't win at all, so I quit early & just watched Brenda.
We left Vicksburg this am and drove onto Livingston, TX. We haven't had mail for about 5 weeks, so while I parked the rig, Brenda went and got a ton of mail. We didn't have to pay the postage to have it mailed to us. We were not in one place long enough to get our mail sent to us.
During the drive in, we saw what IKE did to Livingston. There is quite a bit of damage, lots of trees down, rooves missing, lots of debris.
We have talked to several people who rode Ike out here. They said that amost all of the debris has been cleared away in the park. And all said that they will not ride out another hurricane. As all of us who have ridden hurricanes out, we know it is a very scary thing.
We plan to stay here until Wed am, then move onto Timber Ridge. We spoke with Gwen on Friday and she is expecting us.
Our road adventure is about to come to an end. We have had an enjoyable and educational time. We have met some very interesting people, have visited allot of historical places.
Next year our adventure continues, this time west again.
We will keep posting as things continue in our lives.
Ta ta till then
She has been turned into a floating Museum. Almost all of the ship is tourable. There are 6 different tours to different parts of the ship. What a great experience for me as well as Brenda. She now has a general idea of what I'm talking about when I speak of the time I was in the Navy.
There were 3 other ships there, and they were open to the public.
There was a submarine, a destroyer, and a Coast Guard Cutter.
The submarine was commissioned just at the end of WWII, s she saw no combat. She was eventually replaced by a nuclear submarine navy. Going through her was very interesting. Everything is so cramped and small.
The Destroyer is the USS Laffey. She was built as a replacement to the original USS Laffey, which was sunk during the battle of Midway. It brought back some memories, not good and not bad, just memories.
I didn't reallize that CG Cutters were so large. They were doing some extensive reconstruction to her, so allot of the ship was closed. All in all a great day.
We left Charleston on Thursday and headed to Augusta, Ga.
Bela Humphries and his family live in a town nearby. He and I went to nursing school together. We haven't seen each other in over 15 years.
We stayed in a RV park fairly close to where they live. Bela called after he got home from work, and rode over on his motorcycle. We talked for a while then left for Valerie's (his wife) work.
After a tour of her church (she is an ordained minister), we left for downtown for dinner. We had an enjoyable evening, full of good food and good conversation. We went to another place for dessert. The tiramasu was very good.
Kaetlyn, there daughter, had soccer practice so she didn't join us for dinner.
While we were having dessert, she called with a crisis, so, Valerie went home to her, and Bela went back to the coach and left on his MC. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see Kaetlyn.
We left the next morning and because it was freeway driving drove all the way to Meridian, MS. The next day we moved the coach over to Vicksburg, MS. We went to the casinos for several hours and Brenda won a few dollars. I didn't win at all, so I quit early & just watched Brenda.
We left Vicksburg this am and drove onto Livingston, TX. We haven't had mail for about 5 weeks, so while I parked the rig, Brenda went and got a ton of mail. We didn't have to pay the postage to have it mailed to us. We were not in one place long enough to get our mail sent to us.
During the drive in, we saw what IKE did to Livingston. There is quite a bit of damage, lots of trees down, rooves missing, lots of debris.
We have talked to several people who rode Ike out here. They said that amost all of the debris has been cleared away in the park. And all said that they will not ride out another hurricane. As all of us who have ridden hurricanes out, we know it is a very scary thing.
We plan to stay here until Wed am, then move onto Timber Ridge. We spoke with Gwen on Friday and she is expecting us.
Our road adventure is about to come to an end. We have had an enjoyable and educational time. We have met some very interesting people, have visited allot of historical places.
Next year our adventure continues, this time west again.
We will keep posting as things continue in our lives.
Ta ta till then
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I'm not sure if Rayford has power yet. The Verizon store did not as of yesterday. Don't know about Timber Ridge. Did you get a free breakfast from Ameristar? We did and it was good. Welcome home!
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