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Lone Tree Reporter, January 23, 2003
the Backroads
This week for the Brain Teaser
talking colonization again.
uestion is: What was the first
English colony in
-OTB-
Okay, more about my trip to
whether or not you want
read it. From Greenville,
I crossed into
headed on south on
Still no hills. I meant
I said last week about 300
of fiat. All the way from
Girardeau, Missouri, to
:ksburg, Mississippi, the
sissippi River flood plain is so
you don't even see bluffs in
distance as you do around
At Vicksburg I finally saw
hills again. Took the driving
of the battlefield. I had been
mid - 60's. At that time
federal government had just
control of the area. Until
time the Daughters of the
or some group like
had been improving and
the battleground. At
time, the road past the
lines was a nicely
one, while the one in the
sector was mostly just a
path. It's different now.
From Vicksburg I headed east
Jackson, then southeast to
Alabama. Now, instead of
Vmg through fiat country, I'm
through rolling hills, but
g in a canyon as
are miles and miles of tur-
or loblolly pine trees on
sides of the road.
Occasionally, I see areas where
the trees have been harvested and
new trees have been planted. The
next time some treehugger tells
you our forests are being exploit-
ed send them to Mississippi and
Alabama. Spent the night in
Mobile and moved on the next
morning, after taking a picture of
the USS Alabama which is perma-
nently anchored as a museum,
along with a sub and some air-
planes, in Mobile Bay. Didn't pay
to go in, because I didn't feel as if
I had the time to spend to do it jus-
tir.e. On Monday I took U. S. 98
east along the gulf coast past
Pensacola and all the small towns
that dot the coast. It was warm and
windy and there were occasional
people walking along the beach.
Got to Perry, Florida, that night.
The next morning I looked across
the motel grounds and there was a
peacock strutting around. The
motel people said it wasn't a pet,
but just kept hanging around
there.
Tuesday, December 31, with
some threatening clouds chasing
me, I headed across Florida to the
east coast. Drove past
Disneyworld and followed high-
way A1A for awhile south along
the Atlantic Ocean. I mean, right
along the ocean. To my left, about
50 feet off the highway, was a
sand ridge and on the other side of
that was the beach and the ocean.
Stopped at a rest area and climbed
the sand ridge to see what was
happening in the ocean. There
were people wandering along the
beach, but it was very windy and
Columns/News
By Ron Rife
the waves were coming in pretty
high. I would guess maybe 3 - 5
feet at the beach area. Didn't look
all that inviting for even wading,
so I stayed off the beach and kept
the sand off my feet and out of the
car.
Got to Fort Pierce on New
Year's Eve and got a nice room in
a mom and pop type motel. It was-
n't spectacular, but it served the
purpose and was certainly a better
bargain for the money than the
one I was in whenI got to Miami.
That night I really partied it up. I
sat in the motel room and watched
the ball drop on Times Square,
turned out the light and went to
sleep. During the night, I guess,
there was quite a rain shower. I
didn't hear it, but I saw. the evi-
dence the next morning. What I
also saw on the morning news on
TV was that there had been heavy
rains in central Florida and quite a
bit of flooding around Orlando,
the area I had come through safe-
ly the day before.
I got to my hotel in Miami
shortly after noon, eastern time,
on January 1. It was the Sofitel
Hotel at the Miami Airport. My
information from the travel
agency the Alumni Association
had used said check-in would be
in the afternoon, but didn't specify
a time. I arrived in the afternoon,
but the rooms weren't ready. They
said they had a full house the
night before, with big parties and
late checkout on New Year's Day.
So, I sat around the lobby for
about two and half hours waiting.
At least the Alumni Association
' desk had the rest ot my
package which included the game
ticket, name badge, etc., ready for
me to pick up while I was waiting.
When I finally got my room I
was disappointed. It was fine if
you were only paying $40 or $50
a night. But, once I found out
what hotel I was supposed to be
in, I got online and checked it out
and the rates that were quoted as
'bargain rates' were $120 per
night. The sign on the door said
they could charge up to $259 per
night. I was on the 4th floor and
had a nice view of the Blue
Lagoon, but'there was no balcony
for me to go outside and sit and
enjoy the air. I was rather sur-
prised about that. There was also
no coffee maker, no refrigerator,
no microwave. The room had the
obligatory little soaps and sham-
poos and it did have really big and
luxurious bath towels. The bed
was nice and there were three
phones, two in the room and one
in the bathroom. There was also a
speaker in the bathroom so you
could be in there doing something
and hear the program that was on
the TV. But, as a good value that
an old farm boy from Iowa would
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appreciate, It tailed miserably.
Once in the room and reading the
literature I also found out it was
part of a French hotel chain so I
fgured that explained a lot about
its inadequacies. Actually, the best
deal I had on the whole trip was a
room at the Days Inn in
Greenville, Mississippi, for $30
plus tax. That room DID have a
coffee maker, refrigerator and
microwave.
I'd better cut off for right now.
More next week.
-OTB-
The Thought For The Week
this week seems to apply particu-
larly to computers and how they
keep developing. "Technology
improves things so fast that, by
the time you purchase the best,
there's something better."
The answer to the Brain Teaser
is: Jamestown, Virginia. That's the
colony that gave rise to the leg-
endary John Smith-Pocahontas
story.
Pocahontas, by the way, DID
NOT marry John Smith. She mar-
ried another Englishman, John
Rolfe, who eventually took her
hack to England with him where
she died.
There.
E verywhere.
the
edition of
The Lone
Tree
My Little Corner of
the World By Mrs. P
My little comer just got busier
this past week. In my past 75
Years I have seen many things
Change. The school for one. I
!tat'ted in the town where I was
born (Delta, Iowa). We didn't
have kindergarten. If a teacher got
aarried (she) was out of a job
laching. God forbid if she got in
the family way. (Pregnant was a
Vord used in a whisper.)
l Ilived through the Depression.
l°rae good came out of it, the old
[gYrn was built and the big shelter
nt the north park was built by the
I W.P.A. here in Lone Tree in 1935.
Iorn was $.03a bushel, so many
[!arrners burned corn and didn t
l,buY coal. No one had a job. We
[Uost our house in Delta, so we
Oved to my grandma's house in
SIgourney. My father went to
Vork on the W.P.A. I walked to
School with my sisters. We had to
Valk home for lunch because no
lunch was served at school. It was
%t available until in the late 30's.
So we would go home but in the
'inter we needed to pack our
lunch.
With World War II, my father
got a job working as a ticket agent
and baggerman for the Rock
Island Railroad in the Grinnell
depot. We lived just one house
Ulside the city limit, so we had to
go to a county school. If we had
trouble with the mud road we had
to drive all the way around the
town of Grinnell.
I was in the eighth grade. I
also was the only one in that grade
so I tell my kids I was the valedic-
torian, the salutatorian and the
dumbbell of the class--
We'll continue next week--
Maybe you can use some of
my wall and t-shirt sayings--
--Experience is what you get
when you expect something else.
--You must speak up to be
heard, but you have to shut up to
be appreciated.
Without fools or politicians
we would have but little to laugh
at.
--If you want to write some-
thing that will live forever, sign a
mortgage.
--When you argue with a fool
he is doing the same thing.
--Give some people authority
and they grow - give it to others
and they swell.
--A fellow doesn't have to
make a lot of noise to be a big
shot.
--Language, like linen, looks
best when it is clean.
--If you want a place in the
you will have to expect some blis-
ters.
--A ladder is of no value
unless you climb it.
--Carrying your Bible will
never take the place of reading it.
--It doesn't do any good to sit
up and take notice if you keep on
sitting.
--An argument usually pro-
duces plenty of heat, but no light.
--Some sell themselves to the
devil - others rent themselves out
by the day.
Little sins are the pioneers
of hell.
--Sin is a brat that nobody
cares to have laid on his own door.
--Shine like a light, but do not
flash at people like lightening.
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