Day 33
Well, today is Thanksgiving, and we were hoping to be in Demopolis, but are instead in Bumbleweed Mississippi (Columbus if you looked it up on a map). Due to the high water, and significant amount of debris, we thought it best to hold out another day until the river settled a bit and was more easily navigable… Anyway, it would be nice to have full power for Thanksgiving…
We decided to take a bike ride in the morning to pass the time and check out the area. A couple miles down the road was the Waverley Mansion, for which the majority of the area is named after. They happened to be open on the holiday, so we decided to take the grand tour. It ends up this house was built by a Colonel in the Confederate Army who purchased 50,000 acres in the area to build a plantation. Grant was very interested in the real estate related questions, and not so much the antiques that the tour guide was so excited to show off… Tabbie thinks the crazy lady giving the tour would fit quite well in Kimswick back in Missouri! And of course there were tales of the house being haunted, but we didn’t see any ghosts during our visit (I guess they get holidays off too!) The interesting part of the home was that although on the national historic registry, the home was owned by an individual, and they lived there! How, we couldn’t determine, but the tour guide said it was an antique collector, and that at least somewhat explained how someone could live in a place were you couldn’t touch anything! It ends up that the current owner purchased the home in the 60’s after the house had been vacant for over 50 years. Homeless, hunters, teenagers, and river travelers seeking shelter all exploited the home during the 50 years of its uninhabited time, but remarkably did not do significant damage… The owner also maintained a garden (although it was not kept very well considering the hype about it), and the owner raised peacocks (what exactly do you do with a peacock?? – we don’t know either!) We were kicked off the premises as the owner was having his family Thanksgiving in the dining room a few hours later, odd….
This is both Grant’s and Tabbie’s first Thanksgiving as nomads, so we decided it best to go all out, at least as much as we could living on a boat with the limited means… Tabbie had the determination to make a superb meal, and Grant kept to watching the football games on TV (typical!)… Well, as you can see by the pictures, Tabbie succeeded well beyond the expectations, and we enjoyed a spectacular Thanksgiving meal of Cornish game hens, green bean casserole (Tabbie’s favorite, although we won’t mention she used cream of celery instead of mushroom on accident), potatoes (sweet and mashed), and of course pumpkin pie for dessert!
To bed early today, as it is expected to be a nice day tomorrow for travel, and are trying to make our longest day trip yet (120 miles)…
We decided to take a bike ride in the morning to pass the time and check out the area. A couple miles down the road was the Waverley Mansion, for which the majority of the area is named after. They happened to be open on the holiday, so we decided to take the grand tour. It ends up this house was built by a Colonel in the Confederate Army who purchased 50,000 acres in the area to build a plantation. Grant was very interested in the real estate related questions, and not so much the antiques that the tour guide was so excited to show off… Tabbie thinks the crazy lady giving the tour would fit quite well in Kimswick back in Missouri! And of course there were tales of the house being haunted, but we didn’t see any ghosts during our visit (I guess they get holidays off too!) The interesting part of the home was that although on the national historic registry, the home was owned by an individual, and they lived there! How, we couldn’t determine, but the tour guide said it was an antique collector, and that at least somewhat explained how someone could live in a place were you couldn’t touch anything! It ends up that the current owner purchased the home in the 60’s after the house had been vacant for over 50 years. Homeless, hunters, teenagers, and river travelers seeking shelter all exploited the home during the 50 years of its uninhabited time, but remarkably did not do significant damage… The owner also maintained a garden (although it was not kept very well considering the hype about it), and the owner raised peacocks (what exactly do you do with a peacock?? – we don’t know either!) We were kicked off the premises as the owner was having his family Thanksgiving in the dining room a few hours later, odd….
This is both Grant’s and Tabbie’s first Thanksgiving as nomads, so we decided it best to go all out, at least as much as we could living on a boat with the limited means… Tabbie had the determination to make a superb meal, and Grant kept to watching the football games on TV (typical!)… Well, as you can see by the pictures, Tabbie succeeded well beyond the expectations, and we enjoyed a spectacular Thanksgiving meal of Cornish game hens, green bean casserole (Tabbie’s favorite, although we won’t mention she used cream of celery instead of mushroom on accident), potatoes (sweet and mashed), and of course pumpkin pie for dessert!
To bed early today, as it is expected to be a nice day tomorrow for travel, and are trying to make our longest day trip yet (120 miles)…
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