Tom Crites is a present-day Johnny Appleseed who has planted 2,000 plumeria trees in and around Savannah, Georgia., hoping to establish the glorious flowers in the town he loves.  So it’s hard to imagine him jetting across the world during his 49-year career, away from home sometimes 300 nights a year.  The retired court reporter and firm owner laughs that he has reported in the back of a pickup in the jungles of Panama, under an oil tanker in drydock in Curaçao, on a train from one side of Holland to the other, on the flight deck of aircraft carriers, on airboats in the Everglades, and on the roadside from Delhi to Agra of a horrific bus accident with students on their way to see the Taj Mahal.

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