If It's January, or February, This Must Be Georgia!

Okay, here we go. Seems like I'm on everyone's BAD BOY list for not keeping up, but one of the advantages of living this way is that there's not a rolled-up newspaper long enough for anyone to reach me with. I'll try to do a little of this every day, but since I'm a very busy guy with a lot on my schedule it may take a while (the Daily Show is on in about 10 minutes and then I gotta catch The Colbert Report; it is every American's civic duty to stay informed).

After staying in Texas for about a month and Christmas in Colorado, we hauled the RV from Dallas to Albany GA in two days with an overnight stop in Meridian, Mississippi. Lots of pretty country, but also some of the most discouraging, paralyzing, abject poverty you can imagine in a supposedly first-world country. This writer believes in capitalism, but some things cause reflection on the social services 'safety net' through which some of these people seem to plunge as though it were no more substantial than a rainbow-flavored illusion...

Anyway, we are now set up in a campground just south of Albany which, for those too lazy to Google it, is located in the southwest corner of the state. We are only about 60 miles north of Tallahassee here, so it is what they call a 'sub-tropical' zone which as far as I can tell just means palm trees grow and the bugs never die. Having said that, though, we have had weather that is largely comparable to Maine in the late summer, and which after all is the object of the exercise. Shirt sleeves almost every day in January, anyone? NOT BAD.

Allison's working the ER at Phoebe Putney Regional Hospital, a pretty big one that serves SW Georgia all the way to the Alabama line. She's NOT crazy about the place, says some of the people have a very poor work ethic that makes it hard on her and may even, at times, compromise patient care. She also allows, however, that the beauty of the Travel Nurse gig is that she can just arriva derci, hasta luego, bon soir and sayonara them in just over another month, so that's pretty cool.

That's about it for bringing y'all up to date on our circumstances. I'm gonna end this post here; see additional sections that'll be added today and tomorrow for the (several) side jaunts we've made since arriving here.