Dateline July 17, 2017, Let the Summer Begin
Saga of the cabinet. We pulled out today in the RV with our newly built cabinet finally installed, designed and built by the two of us, and we could not be happier with the work surface and storage it gives us. It is cherry plywood with a butcher block top an inch and three quarters thick. We had originally hired a fellow we will call Joe to build it, but he never got there, and in the end he quit on us, so we tore out what he had done and started over. The spot had been taken up by a passenger seat we never used, which had quietly become the place where everything without a home ended up.
Once we got our own version in, we were delighted. The doors hang on European hinges, the butcher block top lifts open, and it matches the RV's other cabinets almost exactly; our staining and finishing came out better than we hoped. There are always a few things left to tweak, but it is a fine addition to our home on wheels. Our thanks to Janice's brother Brian, who came over the last weekend before we left to help us finish the installation.
Let the adventure begin. We are bound for Newfoundland, where Janice will play in the Canadian Women's Golf Championship in the middle of August. Along the way this year we will play golf at local public courses, stop at historic and interesting places, and, best of all, visit family and friends.
Georgia. Our first stop was Georgia Veterans State Park, on Blackshear Lake in Cordele, Georgia, a park right on the water with a golf course of its own. We picked a site on the lake with lovely views; most of our neighbors had boats and were out fishing at first light and again at dusk. The course is called Blackshear Resort, and it is a very good track. We headed out in the morning to find it in fine condition, though the greens were running a touch slow.
We had a great round and were off the course in under four hours. Then we cleaned up and headed out for an afternoon in Plains, Jimmy Carter's hometown. The next morning we set off for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta.
