Jacqueline’s Jaunts

26 May 2025, Memorial Day, Albany, Georgia to Andersonville RV Park, Andersonville, Georgia Jeeps – 1 (ours) Before we left Albany, we decided to walk to the park office and tell whoever was there how beautiful their park was. It is one of the nicest we have stayed at. The owners, a husband-and-wife team, were so kind and thankful that we loved our stay. We talked for about twenty minutes. They have good friends who live south of Portland. They would love to visit Oregon someday. I don’t know why we didn’t get their names. Let’s call them John and Jan.  We talked about the ducks and geese in the pond. John told us about a husband and wife who had a fight and lived in the area. The husband took the wife’s pet duck and dropped it off in the pond about four months ago. The wife came down a few days later and tried to rescue her duck, but had no luck. John and Jane told her she could come back the next day and try again.  The woman tried to catch her duck by using a net that Jane ...

22 May 2025, Biscayne National Park, Southern Comfort RV Park, Florida City, Florida Jeeps – 3 Another adventurous day. We booked a 9:30 AM, three-hour boat tour at Biscayne National Park , the Biscayne Heritage Tour. The boat was not crowded since there were only 13 passengers in total. This tour took us out to the Keys, and our narrator, Pablo, talked about some of the history of the Keys in this area.   Tequestas were the original inhabitants of the Keys in this area.  Mark Honeywell, yes, the Thermastate family, bought Boca Chita Key in early 1937.        Apparently, this Key was nicknamed the Party Key. It is now part of the National Park.  Israel Lafayette Jones , an African American, purchased his first key in 1897, the 63-acre Porgy Key, for $300. In 1938, Israel purchased Old Rhodes Key. Israel and his brother, Samuel, farmed pineapples and Key limes. In 1911, Israel bought Totten Key for $1 per acre.  One of the Keys we went b...