Eugenious

Sometimes, after breakfast in the morning, Sylvan likes to look at pictures of trucks. Thanks to Google Images, it’s not hard to find as many pictures of trucks as we need.

Our two favorite truck pages are the World War II trucks in Iceland and the Volvo trucks background screens. The WWII trucks are fun because they go through the river, get wet, and require the wearing of helmets, all things that Sylvan can identify with confidence.

One of the better Volvo images is this one, of a red truck under a bridge:

A few weeks ago, I was looking at the image with Sylvan, wondering where the picture was taken. I thought it might be somewhere in Europe, but there’s an English-language sign visible. Somewhere old, anyway.

Two days after contemplating the location of that picture, I ended up in Savannah for a conference. I stayed in a big hotel right on the Savannah River. My window faced east, downstream and onto Savannah’s old, cobblestoned, waterfront roads. Upon awaking the first morning and opening the window’s curtains, I was pleasantly surprised to see this familiar scene immediately below my window:

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