[Joe 6-pack]

Yep...My aunt was a USAF nurse and she retired out of Myrtle Beach AFB when there still was such a thing. We'd go to visit her in the summers and go on carriage tours in Charleston. Love the old oaks.

There are also some magnificent trees just to my south in Avery Island, LA...

[bert]

I was down that way recently and visited Avery Island.

It is a pure tale of family woe.

The Mclhenny ancestor aquired the Island planted peppers and invented Tabasco Sauce that still feeds the family fortune. Somewhere along the line they discovered the island was a salt dome and began mining salt and still do. Then someone associated a salt dome with oil and the oil and gas wells began to come in. Later, Tabasco was so popular folks began to visit the island and admire the beauty and they made a sort of theme park.

To day, to get on the island, you must pay a toll.... $1

That family really knows how to use it’s assets and make a buck.

The Tabasco ice cream was terrific.