Today I am enjoying a quiet day to celebrate my
birthday. My girlfriend Mindy is
planning on taking me out to dinner tonight and she has chosen Bonefish here on
St. Simons. Bang Bang Shrimp here we come. We do have some great
restaurants on St. Simons and in Brunswick.
Mindy and I have a few that we seem to visit more often than others but
we have tried most of the ones on the island.
Last night we stopped into Southern Soul BBQ for a couple of
BBQ sandwiches.
Mindy likes to get the okra and
mac-n-cheese while I usually get the potato salad and mac-n-cheese. Funny but the part of Southern Soul I always
look forward to is getting a bottle of RC Cola?? I get these whenever I'm at Southern Soul so it is a
treat for me. The BBQ is delicious and
Southern Soul is very well known outside our little island. It was featured on Food Network's Diners,
Drive-Ins, & Dives but has also been written up and featured in many places
nationally, if you go to their website, see link above, check out their press page. Southern Soul is definitely worth
checking out and has a great location centrally located on the island across
from the airport on the corner of the traffic circle.
I just heard a collective ‘huh’, St. Simons has an
airport? McKinnon Airport on St. Simons
actually. It provides fueling for
private aircraft, maintenance, avionics, pilot services, up-to-date weather
information and aircraft catering. It
also is a heck of an economic boost to St. Simons and Glynn County. The airport is very busy and I’ve seen jets
just under what you would expect to see from Delta landing and parked out
there. A few months back, I stopped and
counted 25 jets in the Learjet and Gulfstream variety along with limos and a
large number of black SUVs picking people up.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was vacationing on the island that
weekend too. The minority owner of the
Miami Dolphins, Wayne Huizenga, flies in regularly. We know this because his jet has a big Miami
Dolphins logo on the tail.
During the
April Golden Isles Association of Realtors monthly meeting, Ronnie Perry, on
the Governmental Relations Committee, relayed that the economic impact of the
airport is worth millions of dollars annually to our area. There is currently a plan to invest 2 million
dollars into revamping the public areas of the airport.
McKinnon Airport on St. Simons Island Georgia
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