Post 5: Boredom

8/2/09

Location: Moultrie, Georgia

 

            I have a lot of free time here.  And there isn’t much to do.   I am staying in a bed and breakfast about 3 blocks from the pool.   The house is quite beautiful.  It’s defiantly an old plantation house, big and white with a huge wrap around porch It is over 100 years old.  I am sharing a room with my boss, Alik.  He has a king sized bed and I have a plastic inflatable bed that is comfortable, but slowly loses air.   Our room is in the garage/stable house.  It would be a nice place to spend a nice romantic week, but with just the two of us staying here it feels a little awkward.

            I can feel the boredom setting in.  My 2 divers do not arrive until Tuesday, which basically means that I am on vacation.  I have been watching TV all morning, first Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (classic) and The Bad News Bears (remake) on TBS.  What’s worse is that I missed a huge south wind yesterday at home which would have meant a road trip up north for some waves (Frownie Face of Frustration) Oh Well.  

This place (Moultrie) is tiny and surrounded by farms.  Yesterday we went to the Winn Dixie supermarket, I saw all the staples: McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell, on the same road as the supermarket.  Don’t remember seeing a Wendy’s but next to Taco Bell there is a small stand that serves snow cones and funnel cakes, I would love to haven’t had a funnel cake in years, I believe that some folks call them elephant ears, but I sounded good to me when I saw it.  Moultrie is not big enough for Best Buy, but they do have a Radio Shack.  There is a Dominoes Pizza around the corner from our hotel and a CVS and Subway around the corner the other direction. It is sad that these things are the staples of many of our small towns in this country.  You can click on the blue text above to read more factual information about Moultrie. 

The natural landscape is amazing however, there are theses huge trees that have some kind of tiny vines or moss that hang down from its branches.  The air is super humid and it seems to rain every afternoon, which I love and which makes this place vibrantly green.  Even as I write this, the rain has begun to fall.  If there were an ocean, or “great lake” close by it would be a great little place to live because so far that people are very friendly.

 

TTFN-Ta Ta for Now

    -Tigger