Drive Into Georgia

 

After staying at a great Rest Area, we left for Georgia around 9 am.  We are now at a Cracker Barrel in Newnan Georgia, less than an hour away from Gerry, Marcia's friend of over 50 years, who we try and see at least once each year.  First, about this GREAT Rest Area....

Those who know us real well know that I was working as a Public Library Director in Pine Bluff Arkansas...Marcia was a widow of about 8 years living in Palm Harbor Florida.  We met over the computer playing a War Game.  Our two Alliances merged, we started communicating, one thing led to another and we married in 2011.  For the first year she spent about half her time in Pine Bluff, the other half in Palm Harbor.  I would travel the 870 miles, spend three days (two nights) and go back.  600 miles from Pine Bluff was the Quincy Rest Area, mile marker 161.  I would leave Pine Bluff around 2 pm, sometimes 4 pm, and this was a great stop to rest for a few hours.  Here is a over-head view via Google Maps.

 

This view sort of shows the rest area, but I will explain why it is so nice.  The parking along the bottom is for Trucks and RVs.  Above that is a raised area, which circles around the bathroom, with parking on both sides of the road.  This is for vehicles.  Although our van is a RV, we had no problem staying the night in this upper elevated area.  It is pretty quiet for a rest area, we were so tired...we both slept well.

 

 

This left us around 220 miles to go...the first 80 or so were on various two lane county roads and state roads until we got to US-27...then we had four lanes or more the rest of the way.  Should have taken more photos of it, but I was mesmerized by all this very back country, hicksville, can you hear the theme from Deliverance?  

 

Once we got onto a four lane road, all was well.  We got gas, ate breakfast, and got to Cracker Barrel around 2 pm.  This our second time at this Cracker Barrel, and we are in no hurry tomorrow since our visit with Gerry is around noon.