RTE 17

Dropped Connie off at Jacksonville Airport and drove back to Georgia on the back roads. North to Yulee, on to the Saint Marys River and into Kingsland where I started collecting political signs in Camden County. Put em up, take em down

Through Woodbine, across the Satilla River and to White Oak. Great names... Tarboro, the Folkson State Prison, Hickox, Winokur, Nahunta. I suppose visitors to Maine find our town names curious, too. Norridgewock, Passadumkeag, Ogunquit...

This is paper country. Lots of pulp trucks on the roads, stands of pine, clearcuts, at times the foul smell of digesters.


I met a man at a campaign meeting named Bob Torres. The causeway from the mainland is named after his father. Small world... his brother Joe, whom I know from my time in the paper industry in Maine, owned and operated Linclon Pulp and Paper Company. He provided a lot of good jobs to the area. Did a lot of good things in the state. Bob said Joe was very ill. Best wishes, Joe.


And then a picture worth a thousand words...