Blogs from Georgia, United States, North America - page 10

Crooked River State Park, St. Mary, Georgia It was a short drive for us - less than a hundred miles. We headed north on Interstate 95, looped around Jacksonville, said our goodbyes to Florida, and crossed the state line into Georgia. Got off at mile marker 3 and proceeded to Crooked River State Park. If Faver Dykes in Florida was the wild side, Crooked River has it all tamed. Vegetation is the same, but the campsites in this park are all manicured and they are huge, probably designed for big motor homes. They have a miniature golf course here and a visitor center with rocking chairs on the porch. There is a sign advertising a sunset boat ride on Friday which we just might join. This is a State Park designed to just lay back and ... read more

Mrs H and I never turn our nose up at the chance of an adventure providing the adventure does not include bungee jumping, sky diving, scuba diving, pot holing or walking briskly uphill!! For this reason, most of our adventures usually involve a ship of some description. If we had known what was in store for us within the first twenty-four hours of setting off across the Atlantic we may have booked a different route altogether for this was an adventure that if given the choice, we would not have picked even though there was not a bungee rope or an aqualung in sight!! As you've probably guessed, we've set off on another cruise that will see us sail from Fort Lauderdale across the Atlantic calling at Ponta del Garda in the Azores, Lisbon, Bilbao, Le ... read more

Biking on Georgia's Silver Comet Trail Location: Northwest Georgia (Smyrna) to the Alabama border west of Cedartown Distance: 61 miles or 99 kilometres Surface: Mostly Concrete Width: Very wide (12 feet/4 metres) Trail Markers: Marked in miles and kilometres with frequent signs Bathrooms: Yes but depends on the county Benches/Garbage cans: very few except in the towns Rain shelters: a few but no benches or picnic tables. The Silver Comet Trail connects with the Chief Ladiga Trail in Alabama to make up the second longest paved rail trail in USA (99 miles/156 km) We have done the complete trail (round trip) three times from Hiram to the Alabama border and continued to the end of Alabama's... read more

Auf gehs Richtung Heimat … 3 Stunden bis Atlanta und von dort über Newark nach München. Circa eine Stunde vor Atlanta bin ich etwas unkonzentriert und fahre über irgendwas drüber, das das Auto ordentlich scheppern lässt … aber zum Glück bliebe alles ganz (genau deshalb bin ich normalerweise lieber am Abflugtag am Ort des Flughafens, man weiß ja nie, was mit einem Auto alles sein kann) und ich komme planmässig am Flughafen an. Auto retour, einchecken, passt alles. Im Flieger sitzt dann ein Musiker/Investmentbanker/was auch immer Pretender neben mir, der mich vollquatscht. Ich konzentriere mich auf meine Aufzeichnungen und irgendwann lässt er von mir los und sucht sich ein anderes Opfer, das mit einem (Blinden-)hund im Flieger ist … In der Lufthansa-Maschine nach München versuche ich dann gleich zu schlafen und lasse das Essen gleich aus. ... read more

Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia If Russell Cave was a bit of a disappointment, Ocmulgee definitely was not. Ocmulgee is the name of a river that runs through here, and a thousand years ago the Indians built a very complex settlement. They were part of a civilization known as Mississippian, scattered through the south, but concentrated along tributaries of the Mississippi River as far north as Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio. They built huge earthen mounds, as large as football fields and as tall as fifty feet. Mostly, these mounds served as platforms, possibly as locations for other grand structures, such as temples or the homes of the elite. One of these mounds, the funeral mound here at Ocmulgee, served as a cemetery. It has been a rich source of artifacts for archeologists. In addition to the ... read more