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Month: March 2020

Tallulah Gorge State Park

Tallulah Gorge State Park

Since the Corona virus showed itself our trip has been focused on outdoor and nature type outings. Sure should be in better shape when this thing is finally over. Today we headed for Tallulah Gorge State Park, which has a pretty intense walk of over 1000 stairs from the top of the gorge to the bottom and up again. There are six waterfalls to view along the way.  Not a whole lot to say about the park except two tight…

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Stone Mountain golf course

Stone Mountain golf course

After hiking around the park and climbing the mountain I was getting golf withdrawals and the golf course in the park looked really nice and challenging. Jamie hasn’t been able to play golf since August due to her shoulder surgery and a few days before she hit some balls on the driving range and decided she was ready to give it a go. True to my form of making her play on challenging courses this one was right in line….

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Stone Mountain trails

Stone Mountain trails

Along with the hike up the mountain there are also multiple trails around the mountain. Anywhere from a half mile to 5 miles. Unless you’re Jim and Jamie, who get off track and end up accidentally wander off the trail. Then the 5 mile hike turns into a 7 mile hike. We needed the exercise anyway, lol. One interesting exhibit is the 732-bell Carillon, which is a bunch of bells in a bell tower and played from an organ. This…

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Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain is a huge rock that has quite a history. It’s over 800 feet high and has a nice trail leading to the top with a great view of the surrounding area and Atlanta. The park originally opened on April 14, 1965 – 100 years to the day after Lincoln’s assassination. Along with being over 800′ above ground it goes 9 miles underground. It also has a huge carving of three Confederate leaders of the Civil War: President Jefferson…

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Memory lane for Jamie

Memory lane for Jamie

Today we took a stroll down memory lane for Jamie. She lived just west of Atlanta for quite a few years of her youth so we went exploring to see her old house, schools and studio that she learned gymnastics, which was a big part of her life and she became very good at. She even tried out for the junior olympics and took third place. Not very interesting pictures for anyone but Jamie but I’m posting them since it…

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Atlanta

Atlanta

On the 15th we headed for Atlanta. We slept in and got a late start so made a 2 day drive out of it just so we didn’t push ourselves. Where did we stop? Walmart trailer trash we are! We got to Stone Mountain Heights rv park which is about a half hour East of Atlanta thinking we got the perfect location. It was a half hour from Atlanta, and a half hour and 45 minutes from two of Jim’s…

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Jacksonville

Jacksonville

After Tampa we were planning on heading to Atlanta but our friends, Jessica and Gunther from Jacksonville, decided to finally tie the knot after 15 years together. So we decided to head to Atlanta via Jacksonville. We got a site at our favorite rv park in Jacksonville, Pecan Park. The wedding was at a little “wedding chapel” across from the courthouse on Thursday the 12th. Afterwards we headed to Jacksonville beach for some celebrating. We hit all their old watering…

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