Saturday, May 15, 2010

Savannah to Spartanburg, SC







Pics from bottom
1. After biking the 12 or so miles from A & K 's, we picked up this U-haul ( smallest we could find and the only practicable and least expensive way of achieving objective ) to take us , our bikes and 6 panniers to Spartanburg, SC - 250 odd miles away and home of Herb and Dagmar Lindsay. Herb and Dagmar have worked for Guest Services at Snowmass for about the last 15 years and spend every winter there. They work with Mary.
2. They live in a beautiful house overlooking the river outside S'burg. Herb helped me return the U- haul truck. This , and the top pic, show Herb's quite remarkable model railway which occupies the whole of their basement and reflects 35 or so years' hobby work. Phenomenal. Can't be many like it anywhere I would have thought. All in perfect working order and hugely complex electrically with no detail omitted modeled on an actual railway town in Pennsylvania.
3. The old cornmill right beneath their house which Dagmar used to operate in early days with the original water wheel. Another remarkable feat.
4. Standard procedure early each morning except this time we were caught at it !
5. With Herb and Dagmar shortly before our departure the following morning.

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