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Skriven 2006-10-16 14:23:12 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 6526 av hap newsom (1:275/311)
Ärende: Savannah
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Hi Hap,


 hn> Welcome home! We missed ya! Now, tell us are you going to be in Base
 hn> Housing or on the economy? Impressions of the area yet?
 hn> Happy to not be living on the road now?

Thanks; it's good to be back.  We are going to be in base housing; it's
a roughly 2000 square foot place (half of a duplex)--2 story, 3 good
sized bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, a "storage" room big enough to be a 4th
bedroom, separate kitchen and dining rooms as well as a living room and
family room.  It also has an actual garage, no carport or open air
parking!  We move in on Nov. 3, staying in a small suite in guest
lodging until then.

It's a nice area, a lot more urban than any place we've been assigned to
since Germany but we're getting to know our way around a limited area.
We've found a natural foods store, a hybrid natural and gourmet foods
place, a quilting shop, a Hancock fabrics, a bunch of restaurants and,
yesterday, found our church home (3rd church we visited since arriving).
There's lots of good eats, a number of places that are good for
inexpensive eating and of course, all the chain places we're used to.
My favorite of those is Chik-Fil-A. (G)  We tried a Zaxby's chicken
place once so far; it seems to be a newish chain in the south.  I wasn't
too thrilled with my sandwich but Steve really liked the hot (he got the
medium level) wings he had--said the flavor was good but not overpowered
by heat.  We both liked the lunch we had at Sticky Fingers one day but
didn't care for the meal at Longhorns (a steak place).  A lot more
places to try in the next couple of years tho.

It's good to be off the road, tho we did enjoy visiting our girls and a
number of friends while en route.  Had a couple of good meals around
Mobile and another meal that wasn't as good but the setting was
impressive in North Carolina (at the High Hampton Inn near Conyers). Our
new car had about 3800 miles put on in the drive cross country from Las
Vegas on a combination of interstate and smaller roads; Steve used the
horn for the first time to startle a deer in a country road in Alabama.
(G)  As I get settled. I'll write more about the trip but this gives you
an idea of what's gone on over the last 6 weeks or so since we left HI.

BTW, we did hear about the earthquakes on the big island yesterday.  We
know the pastor ofa church that was about 6 milers from the epicenter,
so far, no word out of him about how it was.  One of our friends on Oahu
had never gone thru one before and would just as soon not repeat the
experience; Steve's sister and brother in law were on a cruise ship;
we've not heard from them yet. We experienced a quake when we were in CA
in 1984; I'm just as hapy not to have gone thru this one. (G)


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Ruth
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