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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.
(http://www.southernsoulbbq.com/)   
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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