Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire

Tifton, Georgia 6-1-2011

Crazy or not, we left Orange Park at 5:05 PM.  I wanted to get away from the house because of OTLTA (one thing leads to another).  You know how it goes.  I wanted to water the plants one last time, but I should probably trim them also, but that means digging out the electric hedge trimmer, which means I probably ought to tidy up the shelves because Ron will see them….. Whoa! EJ also had things left undone. Finish cleaning the house/floors so it will be nice for our return, finish the pillows for the RV, etc, etc. Let’s nip that in the bud right now.  Time to go!

We drove US82 along the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and saw the devastation caused by recent fires.  In fact you could still see smoke rising from hotspots here and there. All the underbrush is gone but some of the taller trees still have green leaves/needles at their very tops.

We wanted to make it to Cordele, Georgia, but we started running out of daylight.  As it was, we rolled into The Pines Campground in Tifton at 8:25 PM just as the sun was disappearing over the horizon. The high was 102 in Tifton and only 90 in Orange Park, Fl. Hmmm.  Temperature-wise the Frying Pan wasn’t so bad.