Beckman's Gasthof

A summary of the Beckman's explorations in our new Tiffin Phaeton.

Sunday, November 02, 2014

From Gaffney, SC to Jacksonville, Fl

10-12-14 through 11-2-14
It’s been a while since we’ve posted. We’ve been pretty busy.

We left the coast of South Carolina and headed inland to Gaffney, SC to attend a two day class called Camp Freightliner. Our motorhome is built on a Freightliner chassis. We met some other motor homers from around the country attending this class who also learned about diesel engines, air brakes, tires, etc. John learned a lot and I even learned a thing or two.

After the class we headed back to the low country of SC. The low country consists of barrier islands and coastal areas with grassy salt marches between the beaches and the inland waterways and creeks. Typical of this area are the century old oak trees with Spanish moss hanging off of them. Palmetto trees are also very numerous here.

The beaches are beautiful with fine white sand and sea oats growing on the dunes. The sand dunes are protected and many areas have wooden walkways leading over the dunes to the beaches. The loggerhead turtles crawl out of the ocean and dig nests here to deposit their eggs. The nests are marked and  protected with fencing or tape around them. There are signs everywhere asking people who face the beach to keep their lights out when the eggs hatch, so that the hatchlings don’t become confused and go towards the lights rather than the ocean.



The tall sweet grass that fills the marshes is so plentiful that local people use it to make sweet grass baskets. Many local women have stands on the side of the road selling these intricate baskets.
It was time to leave SC and pass into Georgia. I must admit that the people of SC are very friendly.   John got tired of sitting outside our motor home in the campground and responding to everyone coming by and saying “hey”.  People were very helpful and interested how we came all the way from CA. One guy remarked, “why would you be here when you could be in CA.”

We moved on to a CG outside Savannah called Skidaway Island SP. It was just a short drive into Savannah, my all time favorite city. The town is located on the Savannah River and is small enough to walk around.  There are twenty-two town squares scattered around the historic part of town. These squares are a small city block on each side with large old historic southern homes. They were made famous in the movie Forrest Gump.

There are some really fine restaurants in Savannah. We had shrimp, fresh grouper and cheese grits. These were not your ordinary grits in that they had bacon, onion, parmesan cheese and yes grits.

We left Savannah and handed our motorhome over to an RV place to have some work done on it and we are enjoying staying with my sister and her husband in Jacksonville, Fl. It’s been fun catching up with all the family and meeting all the new babies.

It’s good to be in Gator country again.

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