HARDEEVILLE, SC, and SAVANNAH, GA (NOV. 1 & 2, 2009)

Took a day off yesterday…
Sometimes you have to do that in order to gather your wits about you…
Actually, I just took a day off from the Blog…
Now………… That‘s not quite true…
Let me explain…
If you follow my Blog (as you obviously do if you read this), you can appreciate all the gigabytes I’m using - both for the Blog and the pictures…
Well… Here’s the chain of events, in order to get “things” “published.”
First… Download pictures from camera to computer…
In the process of doing that, I make comments (on the pictures) where I think it’s necessary for clarification of where we are, or what you‘re seeing (a very long process if there are a lot of pictures)…
When that’s done, I save the picture file to my “WD Passport,” a 50 GB External Hard drive (bought at Costco before we left)…
Next, I write my Blog using “Microsoft Word Processor“…
If it’s an “eventful” day, it may take hours… Words (at times) do not come easy for this “transplant,” you see)…
The Blog then gets uploaded to “BLOGGER.COM,” where I have unlimited space (almost) for whatever I want to post…
I’ve been saving a copy of my Blog on my computer, but woke up the other night thinking: What’ll happen if my computer and “Blogger.com” crashes at the same time? Will I loose everything?
Yeah… No doubt… And what a nightmare that would be!
So… Yesterday, I began the tedious task of saving all my Blogs to the Albums (on “WD Passport Hard Drive”) where they’ll match up with my pictures…
Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
Not so…
You wouldn’t believe the intricacies you have to go through to get this simple task accomplished, but… That’s for me to battle, so we don’t need to go there…
Anyway, is that’s a reasons for taking a day “off?“
By the way, I’ve only accomplished the transfer to 20 Albums so far, and I just saw that this album is my 90th…
Got a ways to go…
Hmmm… Might have to take some more time “off” here…
Let’s get on with today’s stuff…
Went (without Lu) for a ride around Hardeeville this morning, just for a break…
Drove a bunch of back roads, but, unfortunately, a lot of traffic prevented me from taking pictures of some of the homes I would’ve liked to show you…
Oh, oh… Feels like my conscience is going to take over for a bit:
So far, most of the pictures we’ve taken of homes and buildings have been in the “WOW“ and “INCREDIBLE” variety…
The abandoned, neglected, and derelict places we’ve seen, have not been addressed, I’m afraid…
There are shabby homes (or should I call them shacks?) in every State, of course, but we’ve just not focused on them at all…
Unconscious decision?
Rather concentrate on “pretty” than “ugly“?
Pride?
Ashamed of showing how “bad” some neighborhoods are in America?
Don’t know…
Lots of questions, though…
I guess my trepidation comes from seeing - for lack of a better word - “squalor” here on the back roads in South Carolina…
Sorry if it sounds like I’m focusing exclusively on South Carolina… I’m not… It’s just that what I saw today
made me realize how one sided we’ve been…
We’ll try to see things without rose colored glasses from now on… How’s that?
After my solo adventure out this morning, we went into Savannah to check out some of the places we haven’t had a chance to see yet…
That took us to the “Well-to-do” section…
(Gasp! This may’ve been the trigger for the previous paragraphs?).
Look at the pictures… Not a shack in sight!
I rest my case against myself!
Happened to walk by the set of “The Conspirators” (or whatever the movie title is), and happened to catch Robert Redford, and a few “extras” in action…
Luanne was actually swooning!
Went home for a rest, then back to town for a “Last Supper” (in Savannah), and a final walk on the Waterfront…
A very nice ending to our visit here, don’t you think?
Tomorrow, it’s on the road again… To Southern Georgia…
Catch us there…
Take care, and keep us in mind…
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