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This is my overview of the trip.

Yeah, we visited the Constitution a couple years back, was interesting, still Navy sailors on board, active duty.

The specific name of the plant, usneoides, means "resembling Usnea", a lichen.^[5] While it superficially resembles its namesake, it is neither a lichen such as Usnea nor a moss, and it is not native to Spain.

I dimly recall visiting Savannah as a kid.  It was very "run down" and depressing, not a tourist destination at all then.  The historic district was houses divided into low rent apartments and many were being torn down.  I noticed today on some squares you'd see a parking lot where nice houses once existed.

It's now the largest historic district in the US.  The University of Georgia was initially chartered in Savannah in 1785, location not specified.  Lore has it that its original location was to be in Watkinsville, but there was a bar there, so they moved it a few miles north to Athens, which at the time was probably little more than a crossroads.  It was the first state chartered university in the country, but UNC was first to open its doors and graduate a class.

There now is a Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) which is very prominent there and in Atlanta, started in 1979 with 80 students or so, now very large, and scattered, including in France.  They have been building fairly large dorms near where we live and we see SCAD on various and sundry.

Why Army helicopters have Native American names | Article | The United States Army

Good article.
Sometimes, other names take over, despite the good intentions behind the official names.
So the UH-1 Iroquois became the Huey.  The attack development, the AH-1, became the Huey Cobra and eventually just Cobra.
Nobody I ever knew called the OH-58 Kiowa the Kiowa.  It was just "scout."  Maybe the armed OH-58D Kiowa Warriors got called something else.  The OH-58's better, faster, more survivable predecessor the OH-6 Cayuse was more often called the Loach.
Going back further and shifting services, nobody called the C-47 Skytrain a Skytrain.  The Brits called them Dakotas and the Americans called them Gooney Birds.
Nobody calls the A-10 Thunderbolt II by its official name.  It's the Warthog.  And the original P-47 Thunderbolt had the popular alternate name of Jug.
I don't think that the F-111 had an official name, but it was called the Aardvark.
The B-1 Lancer has been called the Bone a lot more than its official name.

No WC4E that day, huh?

probably busy defending the innocent

Is THAT what he calls it...?

You Could Own a Former Military Town

A plot of land in Fort Wingate, a New Mexico town that once housed a military installation of the same name, is on sale for $11 million, reports Mary K. Jacob for the New York Post. Located about 130 miles west of Albuquerque, the United States Army outpost was founded in 1868 during the Western Indian Wars, decommissioned in 1912 and officially shut down in 1993. During its years in operation, the fort housed Black servicemen known as “Buffalo Soldiers” and Navajo code talkers.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/western-fort-with-trading-post-goes-up-for-sale-in-new-mexico-180979064/

There are whole villages for sale in far more picturesque locations in Europe.  I think I'd rather have one of those.

but, you're not a military junkie like many of the Porch people

and ya just can't beat the NM weather

Gets too cold in NM.