Yesterday Mom and I decided to drive over to Brunswick, and to explore south-east Georgia a bit. We took all back roads, and drove through all sorts of little, decaying old southern towns with names like Blackshear and Hoboken. Not heard of them? Well, they're even smaller than Waycross, if you can believe that. We ate lunch just outside of Brunswick at a restaurant called The Georgia Pig - delicious barbecue, absolutely delicious. We arrived in Brunswick (I still can't believe they held a G8 summit there!), and stopped for a while to look at the marshland. We didn't head over to Jekyll island or St. Simon's Island or Ft. King George (the touristy things to do there) having done them all before (even if I don't remember), and drove north looking at the sights. We discovered a wildlife preservation area where one can go birdwatching (my mom being rather into this) located at an old rice plantation. We also discovered what was left of an old house, which of course we explored. (Chris, too bad you weren't here!) Soon it began to rain, and the rest of our journey was a bit damp. (We got home to learn that there had been a major storm in southeast GA with tornados and the like... well, all I know is that I have a small dent in my hood where a small bit of tree came crashing down onto it. Sigh.)
The cool old house we found and explored.
Bird sanctuary / old rice plantation
We almost accidentally went here. Good thing they had a sign!
On our way back we drove through the small town of Jesup. As we approached, we could smell this awful reek, which came from the town's Rayonier Paper Mill. When we saw the thing, it was so astounding that we simply had to pull over. I had no idea making paper was so disgusting. It's almost beautiful, in a tragic way.
This morning, we went to look at another house. This one is for sale for $16,000, and has been for sale since July 2004. Well, now we know why. It looks fine from the outside (other than it needs to have bigger windows. Whoever thought pulling out the old tall windows in all these old houses was a good idea?) and has a rather unsightly handicapped ramp. But, once you go inside (the realtor isn't even bothering to lock the place!) and are hit by the overpowering stench of mold, you start to realize that there's a problem. It's kind of weird - there's a new roof on the place, but whoever put it on obviously did a craptacular job, as the inside walls were wet from yesterday's rain! All the walls are moist, and the originally ugly, brown carpet is wet as well. I figure it's worth $5000, and would have to be completely gutted and redone. And well, I might have 5K, but completely gutting and refurbishing a house from 1910 is not on my hermit's budget.
The blue "bargain"
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