Saturday, June 5, 2021

5 Jun - NSTR Last Day at Savannah

 


Last day at the Creekfire RV Resort here in Savannah.  No pictures today.  I spent the morning flushing the water system after sanitizing it through the night.  All is well.  Doreen did the last load of laundry.  I gave the inside a once-over with the Dyson followed by a wet Swiffer.  Once we hit the "south", we've noticed sand being tracked in even when we remove our shoes at the entrance.  So we have to stay on top of that.  No different than being home, there is on-going maintenance, cleaning, laundry, etc  As Clark W. Griswold said to Ellen when Audrie was frozen from the waist down, "It's all part of the experience!" 

We drove out to a fuel station and there happened to be a fruit stand next door, so Doreen got some tomatoes, peaches, and some spicy hot peanuts and hot chow-chow (cabbage, onions, etc) for me.  

We spent the last afternoon here at the lazy river relaxing in the warm water and meeting new friends.  Later, the other Alliance owner here at the resort, Mark and Debbie Perry from North Carolina,  stopped by and we talked quite a bit.  He is retired but she is not yet so they are doing short trips in their Alliance 340.  Doreen gave them one of her embroidered Alliance dish towels and he was very appreciative.  

Tomorrow's drive is about 126 miles from here to Charleston and Foster Creek RV Park which is part of Joint Base Charleston SC.  Unless there are any delays we plan for about three hours driving with a probably pit stop along the way.  

We look forward to our visit to Charleston as a good friend from Des Moines lives here.  Jan Visser was a radio dispatcher with the Iowa Department of Public Safety in 1977 when I first got out of active duty.  I was a radio technician but I had to "pay my dues" and do a six month stint "on the console" and Jan was my trainer.  It was quite an experience for a radio maintainer to all of a sudden become a dispatcher.  I could not wait for something to break so I could bust into my technician mode!  So back then there were few computers and computer-aided dispatch like is used now was just being developed. .  We used typewriters to maintain our station logs.  Black ink for messages received.  Red ink for messages we sent.  Oh, did I say "typewriter"?  That would infer I was supposed to know how to type!  Yeah, uh, not so much!!  I could solder and troubleshoot anything but type??  So it was a real challenge but Jan showed me the way and we got through it.  Of course it was not all about work.  There were hijinks in there too and if my memory serves me correctly Jan might just have been involved.  The State Troopers would call in drivers license numbers or names and dates of birth and request information back.  There were some unique names that would result and we were expected to show professionalism as we broadcast this information via radio back to the Troopers.  I vividly remember giving drivers license information on Mr. Donald Duck, who actually existed.  Good times, midnight shift and all.

So Jan lives in Mount Pleasant SC and we have made plans to see her while we are there.  Can't wait to see her again!   

Next report, Charleston SC.

1 comment:

  1. My son, Kevin, once lived in Mount Pleasant and worked at the Naval Base. He was an instructor at the Navy's Nuclear Power Protype school. This of course was many years ago.

    I also did the same training as a dispatcher in Des Moines and then as the Asst. Station Supervisor in Atlantic. I remember the DL of Donald Duck. But did you know Iowa had a registered driver at that time named Donald Duck Junior? How could a parent do that? Then of course there was Minnie Mousel who also had an Iowa Driver License.

    Charleston is a nice place to visit. Lot to see. Enjoy.

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