2019 Road Trip – Travels with Fred

Everything Fred – Part 34

4 June 2021

I had an intruder last night. I didn’t realize it until about 4 am. Amazingly, whoever it was was able to bypass my security system. No alarm sounded. It’s not like he or she could “cut” the phone line. My system has a radiotelephone and its located in the house. Fortunately nothing was taken but it was a little unnerving to know that someone had been in your house and hadn’t waked me.

Around 4 am I had an itch on my right buttock and as I scratched at it I realized there was something sticking to it. I didn’t think anything of it but whatever it was I placed it on the dresser next to the bed and figured I would look at it in the morning.

When I got up and started my routine I remembered whatever it was sticking to my butt was on the dresser. Here’s what I found.

There were two of these affixed to my right buttock!

I have no idea what QC stands for but apparently my butt passed inspection. Big brother really is an issue! Maybe it was Qanon, C branch! In a sense I’m pleased my butt pleased someone enough to pass but the least they could have done was wake me and inform me in person. Apparently my right buttock passed inspection twice since there were two stickers affixed. However, my left buttock left much to be desired. It didn’t even rate one sticker. Maybe I was even sexually assaulted in my sleep! If so, I don’t think I would rate the rater very highly as I didn’t remember the assault.

I guess it was a good thing I was rolled over on my stomach and they didn’t have the chance to rate another part of my anatomy.

Maybe it wasn’t an intruder from Qanon. I ordered two pairs of shorts from LLBean and they arrived yesterday and I tried on one pair and wore that pair the rest of the day. Perhaps, just perhaps, it was a shorts inspector. Why would they put inspection tags on the inside of shorts? And yes, I cop to the sin of not wearing underwear when I wear shorts and gym shorts in the house. Apparently the stickers came off the shorts and on to my ass.

I would never be caught dead outside on the highway without clean underwear because Mother would come back and haunt me from the grave. Do people really wear dirty underwear on trips? I don’t want to know if that’s even a thing!

Strange things seem to be going on in my life these days. I have a generator company that services my generator four times a year. Normally, I receive an invoice from them for the year’s service at the beginning of each year. I hadn’t heard from them (plus I owed them for a battery) so I called and asked why they hadn’t sent an invoice?

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I’m not sure they like me at the generator company because I’ve complained in the past about their service agents signing off on checking the battery when they haven’t checked the battery. I’ve had two blow up inside the generator over the years because of low levels of water in the battery. I was thinking I was too much trouble for them to continue the yearly service contract.

The ladies that run the office were very appreciative I had called. Apparently they had been having computer problems but they felt everything was back to normal. I was sent an invoice for yearly service by email and I paid it online with my Amazon credit card. They told me the invoice in for the battery would be forthcoming.

Yesterday I get a duplicate invoice for the yearly service asking me to pay (again). I pulled up my credit card statement and saw that the charge went through on May 10th. I called today and the real story is someone hacked their computers and they were still having problems. I guess I’ll have to keep a close eye on my Amazon account for a long while.

I did get the battery invoice and paid it by check and sent it off in the mail. Of course, with the U.S. Postal Service service, it may or may not get there.

I’ve also been trying to replace a lost tent pole for my 2 person, 4 season Sierra Designs tent. I found a company called Tentpole Technologies out of Vancouver, Washington who will make replacements. I sent them the end pole I had and asked them to make the end pole I was missing but with a female end. They are a very nice bunch of people in Vancouver! They called me and discussed exactly what I wanted. Within a few days I received my original end pole and the newly manufactured one.

Unfortunately, they duplicated the original end pole exactly. The original I sent them had a male end which slips into a female end. I needed a replacement for the lost end pole that had a female end.

Back the original goes in the mail with a new explanation. I get a phone call. Very courteous those people in Vancouver! A few days later I get a second end pole with a male part, the original end pole with a male part and a middle pole with a female end.

Yesterday I send the original end pole back with two photos. One shows the original pole showing the male end crossed out and another showing a middle pole with a female end. I said on the photo I wanted the original end pole with the end shown on the middle pole. Stay tuned!

I was also missing a plastic connector where cross poles meet. They got that right the first time. I also ordered shock cord to thread through the poles to replace the old, stretched out shock cord. Hopefully, I will soon have everything fixed so I can use the 4 season tent again!

For the last week we’ve been forecast with over 60% rain each and every day. It has rained once, briefly. I suspect I’ll need to add water to the pool tomorrow. Perhaps not. The rain chance is down to 6% and lower for the rest of the week. The last time that happened, the pool overflowed.

Road Trip – Day 7

31 January 2019

Another cold, crisp morning with temperatures in the low 20’s. For some reason, I waked at 3:30 am and couldn’t get back to sleep before 4:30 am. As a consequence, I slept late until 7:30 am.

Ann made a great breakfast. It was in a casserole dish and contained eggs, flour, milk, chili’s, and cheese. You baked it in the oven for about 45 minutes until the eggs solidified. I really like the spice of the chilis to the dish. Reid cooked sausage, and with fresh fruit and banana bread, I was stuffed.

I said my goodbyes and hit the road by 9 am. I decided to head south on US 45 to Meridian, my birth city. I was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital which has since been torn down – I guess it never recovered from my birth. However, whenever I get anywhere near Meridian, I make a point of stopping in at Weidmann’s Restaurant – in business since 1870. I don’t care what I eat for entrée but I do care to make sure I always get a slice of their Black Bottom pie. It’s made with bourbon and is delicious. I actually have the recipe for the pie and make it for special occasions.

I’ve had the pie many times over the years and sometimes it is better than others. You have to get the right chef making the pie. Today’s pie was spot on.

I pulled into Brandon around 1:30 pm and Archie and Tanis were waiting for me on the back porch soaking up the sun’s rays with a balmy temperature of 56 F.

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There’s a standing joke between Archie and me. He waits on projects until I get there and he me into the projects. Trust me when I say this has happened more than once. One time I ended up roofing a pier on a pond.

Tanis gave him three things to accomplish before I got there and, of course, he hadn’t done any. One project was to see what was wrong with the dryer. After a while, I gave in and said let’s see what’s wrong. I figured the belt that turns the drum had slipped off but it seemed in good shape. Archie then suggested we load it up and take it to a place he knew that repairs them.

It then struck me he had been waiting all day for this moment – me to arrive to help him load the dryer into the truck for the trip to the appliance repair. He’d done it again!

The good news is I got a barbecue rib dinner out of it. They had put ribs on the grill just before I got there and slow cooked them for about 5 hours. I didn’t really do them justice because of the meal at Weidmann’s and the BB pie.

We don’t have any plans for tomorrow (unless it is to complete the other two projects Tanis had for him). I think the next time he and Tanis visit, I’ll come up with some devious project that I rope him into.

Road Trip – Day 4

28 January 2019

I reluctantly said goodbye to Robert and Lynn around 8:30 am and headed to Tishomingo State Park. Robert and Lynn really know how to make you feel at home. We had a great time catching up on old friends, dissing enemies, and generally having a good time.

I keep forgetting that there’s a new interstate between Birmingham and Tupelo – I-22. It certainly makes the trip go faster but there are some wonderful small towns you miss by not taking old US78.

In any case, I pulled into Tishomingo State Park (just north of Dennis, Mississippi and south of Tishomingo, Mississippi) around noon. After checking in, I pulled into campsite number 8 and realized I had forgotten how steep the area around the lake is. I found a somewhat level site to pitch the tent.

Campsite 8. There’s a very steep slope down to the lake. There’s a concrete pad at the top where most people park their camper but I didn’t intend to sleep on concrete tonight since the temperature is predicted to be 18F. Light snow is also predicted.

For those who don’t know, I did my graduate research for my BS in biology at Tishomingo State Park. It entailed 2 years of collecting vascular plants, pressing them, drying them, and then identifying them. I was at the park every other week from early spring, through summer, and into early fall.

The park personnel were great. George Gilpin was the manager at the time and he had a wonderful staff of good ole boys to help run the park. They gave me the run of the place and even put me up in a group cabin most nights (with a fireplace), a visitor cabin several nights (2 bedroom, fireplace, kitchen, and bath) and eventually, I was put up at the old manager’s home near the lodge.

During my first year, I was often put up in this group cabin. It had bunk beds, a shower with hot and cold water, and most importantly, a fire place. The park provided the firewood.

My second summer at the park was spent in the rear stone apartment of this building. The front was used for storage. I loved it. It was on top of a cliff which overlooked the swinging bridge and swimming pool below. The good ole boys would collect me at night and take me out roaming around north Mississippi and Alabama. With drinks flowing freely, I got to see Mussel Shoals recording studio and more importantly, the Coon Dog Cemetery in north Alabama. There are some tombstones in New Orleans that were not as fancy and ornate as some of the graves of treasured coon dogs.

After getting my degree, I later returned to head up a contingent of the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) to renovate the nature center. In all, I spent four wonderful years in this park.

It was here in the nature center that the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) and I renovated the facility. I think our renovation lasted a year and the park decided they needed the space for storage. It’s a great building. The concrete was so solid (from 1939) that you couldn’t drill into it.

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The famous swinging bridge of Tishomingo State Park – originally built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1939. A sign says no more than five people at a time on the bridge. The bridge spans Bear Creek.

Bear Creek. The water is pretty high right now. Charlie Cooper and Crag Knox and I used to frequently canoe this creek. It runs northwards and empties into the Tennessee River near Pickwick Lake. We’ve canoed it all the way to Pickwick.

The rock formations in Tishomingo State Park are amazing. Winter is an excellent time to visit the park because the summer greenery hides much of the formations.

This was probably the view that convinced me to do my graduate work at this park. I had been presented by my thesis director, Dr. Thomas Marion Pullen, two state park choices for the plant survey. Upon entering the park, it’s as though you have entered the Smokey Mountains. The reason is that Tishomingo County is considered the foothills of the Appalachians. I thought the scenery couldn’t be beat and I had a great chance to find interesting flora similar to the Smokey’s.

There are three very rare ferns in the park: Purple cliffbrake, Cliff fern and walking fern. This is walking fern, Asplenium rhizophyllum. You find it growing among mosses on the surface of cliff faces. Where the end of the frond touches, it sprouts another fern vegetatively. To my sorrow, I checked all the places I remember collecting these ferns and this was the only one of the three species I found still growing in the park and the was the only one I found at all. Hopefully, the three are still found in other places in the park I didn’t check.

You can just imagine this as some animal den.

I always referred to this as the grotto. It’s across the swinging bridge and Bear Creek along a trail I walked more times than I can remember. I remember my excitement when I found freshwater planarians under the rocks of the stream.

The 100 steps. Actually, there are only 98 but everyone calls it 100. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been up and down these from 1974-1977.

My thesis direct, Dr. Pullen, asked me to be on the lookout for a plant commonly referred to as quillwort. It took me two years to find it growing along the edge of the CCC pond. I think he was more excited than I when Charlie Cooper and I brought it back to campus on a Sunday morning. He met us in my office and confirmed our find. I was able to get a scientific note out of this in the journal **Castanea**. It was the first reporting of this genus and species in the state of Mississippi.

This is found at the front entrance to the park and it is similar to the color photograph of the wildflower book I wrote on the park. The Mississippi Park Commission and the Graduate School of the University of Mississippi published the book. You can see a copy of the book here.
If you are really bored, you can see my thesis here.

Road Trip – Day 3

27 January 2019

What a great day! Robert and I left the house around 8 am and headed to breakfast. After Belgian waffles and coffee we then made a short detour to see Vulcan.

I’m old enough to remember when the statue had a lamp in his upraised arm instead of an arrow. Robert said the original statue had an arrow and it was later replaced by a lamp and has since been restored to its original arrow. The statue was made from iron ore mined from the site and was Alabama’s entry into the St. Louis World’s Fair in the 1904. After the fair, it was returned to Birmingham and permanently installed at its present site.

For many years when traveling through Birmingham for various reason, I always looked to see Vulcan. Robert said when the light was installed in the upraised hand, it was red if there was an accident on the road next to it. If not, it was green. It’s a great site to visit and one day I hope to make it up into the tower.

From Vulcan, Robert drove me around downtown Birmingham showing me some sights. We headed south on I-65 to Montgomery. Our primary purpose was to see the Hank Williams Museum.

The museum opened at 1 pm so we had some time to kill. We drove to the Oakwood Annex Cemetery to see Hank Williams’ grave. It is pristinely maintained and there were fresh red roses on his gravestone.

From there we visited a Civil War cemetery that started out as the original town cemetery of Montgomery. A large section of the cemetery is blocked off for Confederate soldiers who died not from their wounds but from diseases from the battlefield like cholera, dysentery, smallpox, etc. Many of the graves were marked unknown.

Confederate Portion of Cemetery of those who died from disease

A lot of these deaths were early in the war and as late as 1864. Many were the result of lack of medicines in the South during the war because of the blockade of the southern states.

Finally it was time for the HW Museum to open. It was jam packed with memorabilia from Hank’s days on tour. Most of the collection on display is privately owned and much of it is owned by his son Hank Jr.

Hank Williams Museum on Commerce Street, Montgomery, Alabama

There were things from his days at the Louisiana Hayride, the Grand Ole Opery,, and even from the Hadacol Radio Hour. For those not in the know, Hadacol was this miracle cure out of Louisiana that was 14% alcohol that advertised constantly on the radio. I remember the commercials as a kid. The didactics of the museum indicated the inventor gave it the name because he “had to call it something.” It went the way of Carter’s Little Liver Pills when the FDA ruled your drug actually had to do what it promised.

The museum is deceptive. It looks very small but it larger than you think. Included in the exhibitions are the suit Williams was wearing on tour, his suitcase, and toilet kit that was in the trunk of the car when he died. Williams died in the back seat of his car (also in the exhibition) at the age of 39 of a heart attack while on his way to a concert in Canton, Ohio.

On our way to the HW Museum, you could go through the block through an alley. As you walked through the alley, you would pass restaurants and stores to get to the next block. As I was walking through, I saw an advertisement for The Legacy Museum. It later dawned on me this was the museum dedicated to the lynching of blacks in the United States during and after Reconstruction.

I knew I wanted to see this so I left Robert at the Hank Williams Museum to buy a ticket to the other. The Legacy Museum was closed but I could walk 15 minutes to the National Museum for Peace and Justice which is associated with The Legacy Museum. I finally realized it was the National Museum for Peace and Justice I wanted to see.

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I had confused the new Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi with this museum. If you have read anything about it, the NMFPAJ has metal rectangular columns handing from the ceiling.

Scott County Mississipi lynchings are the center one. Others are from other states and counties.

Each column represents one county of one state. The names of black men and women who were lynched were cut out of the metal. Each column is illuminated at night so if you visit at night, the names are outlined in light on the column.

Over 4,000 lynchings occurred in the United States after Reconstruction and up until the 1950’s. I was trying to find my home county (Scott) in Mississippi. I had looked this up on a web site and was told there was only 1 lynching in the county. It turns out there were 13 lynchings in Scott County from 1896 until 1902.

Two women were walking around the same area as I and they were looking for Madison County Alabama. We all agreed to help each other look. I found mine but they were still looking when I left.

As you leave the hanging columns, you walk out into the sculpture garden and the same names and counties are cut out of metal to look like coffins. The number of lynchings in Mississippi was so large there was a special area of the sculpture garden set aside for them.

I get emotional when I see images and video of the Viet Nam Memorial in Washington. I’ve never visited and would love to see it. I can’t image it could be any more powerful than this monument to those who lost their lives to lynchings in the United States. This is a must see if you ever get to Montgomery. It’s worth a special trip.

From there, Robert and I headed to Confederate Memorial Park which has a wonderful small museum on the Civil War and the Confederate Veterans Home that was once on the sight. As many as 91 Confederate Veterans and their wives (called inmates) were housed on the premises with healthcare. The last Confederate veteran died 1934. After the last widows passed away in 1939, the facility was closed. None of the buildings or cottages remain.

There are two cemeteries in the park that hold the graves of the veterans who died while in the care of the Home.

We returned in time to gather Lynn and head to dinner at Ruby Tuesdays.

Tomorrow I head to Tishomingo State Park near Dennis, Mississippi for one night of camping. This is where I did my masters thesis – a floristic survey of the vascular plants of the park. I want to hike some of the trails that traveled for over two years of plant collecting. Predicted temperatures are in the 20’s. It should be cold but I have two sleeping bags which I intend to slip one inside the other. There’s even a possibility of snow!

Road Trip – Day 2

26 January 2019

It’s been a long day. The drive to Hoover, Alabama to see Robert and Lynn Buford was a little over 9 hours. I ate breakfast at the hotel and was on the road by 10 after 8. The good news was my gps guided me through some back roads (albeit 4 lane) until I hit I-75 and I-10.

I-10 was interesting. During the last hurricane, stretches of I-10 were closed. I can now see why. Although the interstate was open all the way, as you traveled west from Tallahassee you were often a single lane both directions due to crews working to clear the hurricane debris from the sides of the interstate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many downed trees. There must have been 20 different crews working along the I-10 corridor cleaning up. I suspect it will take them another 4-6 months to be completely done. Every so often, you would see a house along the interstate with major damage. I can only imagine the damage to Pensacola.

Once into Alabama,. I headed up through Dothan, then across to Montgomery where I picked up I-65 into Birmingham. I had phoned Robert to tell him to anticipate me around 7 pm with fuel stops and bathroom stops delaying my arrival. As I passed over the Apalachicola River, I remembered the time zone change which would put me at 6 pm Central time.

With minor exceptions, the speed limit was mostly 65 on state roads and 70 on the interstate so I was able to pick up some time and I rolled into Robert and Lynn’s place at 5:30 pm. Lynn had dinner ready: pot roast, turnips, and mashed potatoes with cornbread right out of the oven! All I needed to do was put pepper sauce on the turnips and butter on the hot cornbread.

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Robert taught speech on my campus and Lynn was an Executive Assistant to a Vice President downtown. Robert and I worked with the faculty union and faculty senate. We’ve all remained good friends ever since.

After dinner, Robert showed me his newest hobby – leather working. He’s become very proficient. Most of his work currently is hand stitched and he does a beautiful job. He’s done purses, pocket books, holsters, and belts. He’s even done a beautiful backpack. Robert is very talented. He even makes his own knives.

Tomorrow, our goal is to do a Hank Williams tour. There are several sites in Birmingham and there’s a museum in Montgomery. Hank, Senior has always been a favorite of mine. I never have cared for junior (Bocephus).

Mother and Daddy used to frequent juke joints in the Mississippi Delta when I was a kid. These were real dives but they all had some type of juke box and enough wooden floor space to dance. Mom and Dad would often put a nickel in to play a Hank tune, drink beer (illegal in the state of Mississippi, of course) and dance to “Cold, Cold Heart”, “Hey Good Lookin’”, or my favorite, “Your Cheatin’ Heart”. They would start out on the dance floor and I would get jealous and get in between them and make them pick me up and dance with me between them. I suspect I was all of 4 years old. At home, I have a photo of me and Mom with me standing on the bumper of a really old Plymouth. It’s funny what you remember from childhood. When it comes to bars, I still prefer the beat up, worn down juke joint type.

And yes, I have almost every recording Hank made on my playlist.

Road Trip – Day 1

25 January 2019

The drive from Fort Lauderdale to Lakeland, Florida took around 4 hours, mainly due to a stop at Fort Pierce Turnpike rest stop and a line at Dunkin’ Donuts inside. Let’s just say the people behind the counter really didn’t want to be there. That threw me off by around 30 minutes. That and a notification from SunPass that my credit card renewal was denied. I spent some time accessing SunPass on my iPad and getting the credit card information updated so they wouldn’t send the HP after me on the Turnpike.

I pulled into The Terrace Hotel around 1:30 pm, took my luggage to the room (8th floor) and went back down to the lobby to wait for Bill Wood. He showed up about 10 minutes later.

Bill was a young ensign on board the. Coast Guard Cutter Reliance in Corpus Christi, Texas when I reported there in 1971 (can you believe 48 years ago). Unlike most of the officers on board, Bill was not an academy graduate (called ring knockers because they constantly drew your attention to their graduation ring by knocking it against any table at which they were sitting) but a graduate of Officer Candidate School in Yorktown. Va. after completing bootcamp at Cape May, N.J.. He had a more laid back attitude about things than the academy types. Even though he had nothing to do with my rating (Radioman 2nd class) we crossed paths often enough to become friends. We constantly ragged each other by Georgia/Ole Miss football.

Coast Guard Cutter Reliance. It’s hard to believe it is still in service. Photo from USCG Atlantic web page.

Before my retirement, we re-established contact via a CGC Reliance website and have kept in touch since. During my last posting about my last trip, he read I was in Lakeland and from there, we decided to get together in Lakeland. He’s in town from Atlanta (by way of Celebration, Florida) as a judge for the Lakeland Pig Fest Barbecue contest. Since 2015 he’s been judging contests throughout the south and now has 27 contests under his belt.

Before he needed to head to the contest, we had lunch at Harry’s Seafood Bar and Grill (the best place to eat in Lakeland). He had the Jambalaya and I had red beans and rice -Harry’s is the real deal as far as Cajun food goes.

Bill had printed me out a judge’s parking pass and I followed him out to the site at the SUN ’N FUN/Florida Air Museum grounds on Medulla Road about 6 miles outside Lakeland. He said they anticipated 80 professional barbecuers and some 30 amateurs.

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He’s judging tonight and tomorrow. The barbecue is approved by the Kansas City Barbecue Society and judging is quite strict in the guidelines and how the food must be prepared by the barbecuers.

Bill walked me around the site pointing out various outfits, types of smokers and grills, etc.

As we walked we talked barbecue and Coast Guard days. We both lied and told each other we hadn’t changed a bit. Right! I seem to remember us both with more hair and less weight.

To be a judge, you do have to go through some significant training and once certified, you can work your way up into the system, judging more and more events and more events open by invitation only. Bill is about to hit the 30 contest mark where he will then qualify for master judge (after passing a written test).

New paint job on my jeep. What do you think?

He headed to a judges orientation and I headed back to The Terrace. After the late lunch, I suspect I will find something simple to eat. I need to get an early start tomorrow morning for an eight plus hour drive to Hoover, Alabama where I’ll stay with old Broward College friends Robert and Lynn Buford.

And no, I didn’t eat any barbecue. They were just setting up and beginning the prep for the next day.