Nan and Bear on the Road for Thanksgiving

We left on Tuesday before Thanksgiving and headed to West Palm. My son drove so it made it a nice trip for me to sit back and enjoy the trip.

The first mornings sunrise was beautiful in the cloudy sky.

We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner with all the trimmings. A beautiful table to sit down to.

On Saturday we went to the Turtle recovery center. They had beautiful fish for us to see.

A scene to show how the turtle hatch and head for the ocean.

The turtle below is believed to have had an encounter with a shark. Notice a portion of the left flipper is missing. When he was found, he was underweight, but is back to 174.5 pounds now.

This turtle had a lot of crustations on his back. He was nursed back to health and I saw a news announcement that he was released on Monday of this week.

This turtle was just brought in and they were setting up the IV tube for meds. He is missing a part of the top part of his shell. They have crafted a shell in place, so now he needs to heal.

It was on to the pier and watching the waves and the surfers.

Birds were out, they were watching for any piece of fish that might be available from the fishermen on the wharf.

This fisherman caught a small crab that was desparately trying to get away.

The parasails were busy. A beautiful sight to watch.

Bear and I stayed at John Prince Park County Campground. This is one of the beautiful trees on the lake in the park.

We drove down through West Palm Beach to see how the other half lives. Gucci purchases anyone?

Then we visited the location of one of Donald Trumps home on the beach. This is the back of the house. Can't park in the front.

You can see the Trump towers in the distance.

Donald Trump doesn't like the planes flying over his house.

The city didn't like the size of his flag so made him put up a smaller one.

At Boynton Beach inlet the boats have to show their skill as they shoot through an opening and down the inlet. Looked dangerous to me, but they all seem to handle it quite well.

Look how rapid the water is that is shooting through this inlet.

Birds were out here too, looking for the fisherman's morsel.

One of the fishermen caught a drum fish. He said it was good eating.

As the sun set on another beautiful day in West Palm, we headed to a restaurant for some good seafood.

Boats heading into the sunset for the day.

Come back and join us for our safari.

Nan and Bear on the Road to Panama City

There is a beautiful State park just below Panama City. So I checked in and called my grandson that I had arrived.

It is a park that is located on a lagoon.

Great views where ever you looked

My grandson Ben, Great grandson Edward and mother Charity.

Ben and Edward

Bear made sure Ben stayed on the couch just as he did when Ben was little.

Great Grandma of course had to hold Edward some.

He is a heavy little guy.

After a couple of days, Bear and I headed on to visit St. George Island. But alas that park had so many skeeters we only got out when needed. Walks were fast. So after a full day of rain, Bear and I moved along toward home.

Nan and Bear on the Trail of Tears

As I was leaving Tennessee found a sign that indicated I was about to enter a road that had been a part of the Trail of Tears.

It was a beautiful drive across the mountains. Remembering that this was the trail that indians were exiled across.

A lot of the fall colors were showing in this area.

The clouds were down on the mountains.

As I neared the bottom the clouds were still present on the mountains.

This was a great drive and I was so glad that I found it.

Nan and Bear on the Road in Alabama Day 2

Carolyn this is for you, remember driving up this road to the campground? They were not kidding this was an L curve.  Wendy came from Birmingham, so Sara, Wendy and I had a gathering.

We visited a market and I was enjoying taking pictures of the products. Don't eat potato chips, eat green bean chips.

or vegetable chips.

or carrot chips.

And then it happened, I took a picture of this fresh food display and was told that was against store rules. So had to quit snapping pics. So we tested their fresh stuff and left. Only I can cause us to get thrown out of a grocery store.

So we went on to a better place, another German restaurant for lunch. We were met by the waitress you see on the right and she offered to take our picture.

Here we are Sara, Wendy and Nan

Above is the dessert shelves as we entered the store, they asked us to take pictures. (my kind of place)

Then we had lunch.

The decor was great.

The company was great.

We had a wonderful waitress.

We then went shopping for apples and a bit more looking but Wendy needed to get home so she could leave the next day for the cruise. So we bid adeau. Sara and I made a fire and as we were sitting there we saw a great hawk fly over so I grabbed the camera for pictures.

Although he watched me he didn't seem to mind that I was snapping his picture.

Alabama was indeed a fun time, but headed on into Florida to see my new great grandson

Nan and Bear on the Road in Alabama

Sarah came to pick me up and took me out for a lunch at a German restaurant and on to the rocket.

Great food. Meatloaf, german potato salad and red cabbage. Yummmmmy

No meal is complete without dessert. We were so full we shared this. It was delicious.

Hildegard's German Restaurant.

On to the rocket. Found out quickly it was much more than just a rocket.

A stilth plane

A closer view of the rocket

Memorials to the different shuttles.

Just think this was what started flying and the space programs.

The quarantine facility after they were brought home.

The space suit.

A ride to demonstrate a space ride.

All the reasons I did not ride.

More rockets

Moon buggy showing what they saw when landing on the moon.

As we were leaving this was a view of the sky

When people go to the space camp this is where they sleep.

A very nice guard took this picture for me inside the gates.

One more rocket and we were finsihed for the day.

Enjoyed the day so much, found out Huntsville, Alabama offered so much more than I ever thought, decided to stay another day and look some more.

Stay tuned for day two in Huntsville.