A Quiet Hurricane Season Comes to an End

The hurricane season is almost over so we'll be leaving Brunswick in a week or so. We'll miss the beautiful live oaks (above) many dripping Spanish moss from their branches. The sea oats

(above) are another beautiful site here.

We plan to head south to Marathon for Thanksgiving. Our daughter Brooke will join us there for the holiday much to o

ur delight. Then our friend Steve Olson will join us to cross from Key West to Cancun and points south. We're delighted about that as well.

Brunswick has been a pleasant pause in our travels. It has been great to be stateside enjoying the ease of shopping in well-stocked grocery stores--of course, I mean stocked with the foods I'm looking for. We also have our car here with us, so we're not walking mile upon mile laden with heavy bags of foodstuffs and other goods in often hot, sunny weather.

The first month here in Brunswick was beastly though and with no car then, we trekked several miles to doctors' appointments and grocery stores--and of course West Marine. On July 28th we left for a month-long visit to Bordeaux, France, beating another beastly hot month here in Brunswick. A little more on France in the next post.

While here, we visited my mother in Maryland, pictured here with my brother Carter and me

and with his wife Cindy, below.

I also visited one of my childhood friends, Joan Higbee, and her mother pictured below.

We were fortunate to have visits from another of my childhood friends, Debbie Cofield Forrest and her husband, Bob--an Army buddy of Mike's. Debbie and Bob now live in Luray, Virginia, in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.

And our dear friend and neighbor Rosemary Kernahan whom we knew in Denver, drove from Atlanta to spend a long weekend with us.