April 27, Sunday, Day 52: Stories

Wow, did I do a lot today - of nothing!  Laundry (I turned my southern Tier jersey into a laundry bag), played with a dog, cleaned my bike, watched TV, and helped dispose of the excess wine inventory.  

The Inn at Wildwood has a golf course, driving range, and restaurant, all closed.  Seems that the former owner got $3 million to renovate the place, used $1 mil to do things like kill the golf course, then ran off with rest of the $$.  They caught him.  Can't top the story from the Butler Greenwood plantation in St. Francisville, LA though (we stayed there a couple weeks ago).  Ann Butler was shot five times and left for dead by her husband, the former warden of Angola prison.  Her son found her, she lived, hubby died in prison, and Ann runs the B&B. 

In the evening, Mats, a friend of Sheila's, joined us for cocktails and dinner. He is walking from Stockholm to Sydney, leaping over oceans by airplane of course. He is partway through the journey having walked 4000 miles through Europe then coming to the US in Miami.  He is following the Southern Tier route to get to San Diego, then on to the Far East and Australia. And we thought cycling 3000 miles across the US was a great feat!