Day 7: November 10, 2020 A Florida Start Comment via blog Check Granny's letters of the day

I paused at the Suwannee County courthouse on the way out of Live Oak. It is another town that honors veterans by lining the streets with their names.

This spring in Branford's Ivey Memorial Park is a real touchstone in connecting with the travelers of 1920. Granny describes it and they spent a night camping nearby. When we stopped here in 2001, a large wooden deck bordered the spring's south edge. By the time I returned in 2015, is was completely surrounded by decking although most of it was hidden by the unusually high river waters.

Granddad and Granny spent Thanksgiving nearby on the banks of the Ichetucknee River. The area had already been a state park for thirty years when we passed through in 2001 but reaching the river was straight forward. I noted at the time that tubing on the river was popular and that has only increased and become more organized with large paved parking lots and shuttles.

A couple of miles east of Hawthorne I moved onto an unpaved road bypassed by the modern FL-20. I managed to pretend it was 1920 until the dirt road turned into a two-track that ended in someone's yard. The last picture is of the other end where it connects with CR-20a.

Edgar is one of the places Granny mentioned, and when we stopped here in 2001 the post office was still in operation. As the plaque explains, it closed in 2010.

I must have driven by this place before but somehow missed it. Today I did not miss Angel's Dining Car and ducked in for a cheeseburger in the rain.

This brick pavement once led to that long gone 30¢ toll bridge over the Saint Johns River. We also stopped here in 2001. What a difference nineteen years and a little rain makes.

A couple of driveby shots as I drove through Saint Augustine. I'll be back.

There was no bridge here in 1920 so Granddad and Granny spent 51¢ on a ferry then returned and camped in south Jacksonville. I crossed on the bridge then returned to "camp" with a cousin.

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