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Wow.  What a trip!  We’re holding off on the sum-up post, so this one is about our stays in Florida and Georgia.

From NO we drove to Panama City, FL to stay with a friend of Will’s, Ray.  He was living there for 3 months on an internship to study sharks in the Gulf of Mexico.  While there we just laid low and hung out for the evening.  The next morning, He and his girlfriend (Cora) took us this breakfast place called “Andy’s Flour Power.”  Kathleen and I shared a croissant loaded w/ eggs and all the other good breakfast stuff and French Toast – both were very good.  After breakfast it was back to the road for another 8 hours to Vero Beach to see Will’s grandmother, Meme.  So, thanks Ray and Cora for keeping us company for our short stay in Panama City.

In Vero Beach we went shopping and briefly saw the Atlantic.  On Saturday, we watched our alma mater, Appalachian State University, play in the 1-AA football playoff semifinals…we lost.  Meme also took us to her club for dinner with some of her friends.  It was fun and the food was delicious.  Kathleen ordered ribeye and Will ordered duck – both good and for the first time we didn’t want to share.

After Florida it was on to Georgia.  While there for two nights we stayed in Will’s grandmother’s house in The Ford Plantation (in Richmond Hill, GA).  Our main activity here was just enjoying the last couple days of our amazing trip.  We had a very nice meal at the clubhouse and ended our trip the way it started – by drinking “Irish Monkeys.”  We also rode bikes along a dike that surrounds a former rice paddy.  We love Ford and it was a great place to end our trip.

Now, we are just getting settled back into Charlotte.  Soon, we will move to Greensboro.  We have been told we will need to blog about our grocery shopping so family has stuff they can read about while we are gone – sorry, that ain’t happening!  We will probably have 2 or 3 more posts in store.  A main sum up post and we are hoping readers will ask questions in the comments section that we’ll answer on the here, too.

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