Catching up on the end of the tour…  The “Georgia On My Mind Tour” (original, huh) included stops in Thomasville, Albany, Columbus, and Ft. Oglethorpe.  During one of the TV news interviews, our young son Jonathan told the reporter he might get a little bored with living at the White House.  “I mean, all you’d pretty much see is just white,” he said, somewhat seriously.  The reporter smiled. So did we…  In Albany, Georgia, we met with the staff at the Bread Basket Bakery.  This is a bakery with a purpose.  The proceeds from the bakery fund a rather nice halfway house for recovering women in Albany…  In Ft. Oglethorpe, we attended one of their monthly “Cruise-ins.”  Old fashion cars are parked up and down the main street here and speakers on telephone poles blast out such tunes as Rockn’ Robin; the them from Happy Days; Mustang Sally…  I knew the lyrics to the latter and started hamming it up by singing along — much to our teenagers’ chagrins.  We then interviewed Max Stoker for a You Tube video on his 1954 Champion Studebaker.  It was quite a car…  Following this we drove through Tennessee north into Kentucky.  On the last night of the tour, we stopped at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg.  It was quite a night.  Our kids got in a pick-up basketball game with some college students in this “old school” type, intrarmural gym.  Watching the sunset over the mountains through some arched gym windows, with our kids playing a spirited basketball game on an old wooden floor in the foreground, was, well, something like a Norman Rockwell scene, in motion.  We have had so many of those types of scenes, so many small town wholesome moments, in the traveling over the years.  And Liz and I, as parents, have been tremendously blessed with it all.  Note:  The next morning on the way back to Ohio, we stopped in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, where we decided to ‘wet our whistles’ (sorry) with, of all things, Java Jo’s coffee.  I passed out some campaign cards there and one of the workers, Robin Bowers, said she had two daughters — in the Marines.  She said while she was on board with military cuts that were about blatant waste, she didn’t want to see any cuts to things that would help her daughters on the battlefield — “…as they are protecting our lives.”  Note 2:  At 3:58 p.m. Monday, “the beaver” landed back in Bluffton, Ohio.  We travel in a “vintage” (that is when it’s not acting up) 1978 Dodge Beaver Motorhome.  As coincidence would have it, Bluffton University’s mascott?  That’s right: “the beaver.”