As I said in my previous post, one reason that we went to St. Simons was for kind of a "walk down memory lane" for JR. He lived on the island in 1968 when the only real eating establishment he remembers is the Dairy Queen that is still there. There is a very large resort there, the King and Prince, that was boarded up when he was there and now it is a very exclusive, very crowded destination resort. While we walked around, and walk we did, looking at some of his old stomping grounds we saw the apartment that he shared with three other sailors. He shared a lot of memories from the time spent there; the one common memory we both shared during those early Navy years was homesickness.
Here are some pictures from our walking tour.
These were taken from the end of the pier. The shrimp boat was just in the process of dropping it's nets and heading out to fish.
The King and Prince
We stayed at a beautiful Methodist Retreat on the Island, "Epworth by the Sea", what a beautiful, peaceful, spiritual place. Here are just a few of the pictures from there.
The following morning after breakfast we decided to visit one final place from our, National Parks Passport, Fort Frederica National Monument. It felt surreal knowing that I was standing on some of the same ground where people I used to teach about in the classroom stood so many years ago. The ranger on duty gave us an interesting overview of what we would see and then we took a self-guided tour before leaving the island.
Then it was back to Athens for one more night of walking around town and meeting friends of JR. We had one final interesting experience involving an old friend but that will be for another post. It was a great trip!
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