July 11

We started today in Falling Creek,  Florida  just south of the George Florida  Line. No one sang to us as we headed north. After encountering a rare tree frog we just beat feet north as some, I heard, are poisonous. 

We lasted on US 75 until noon and after a full morning of Scenic Billboards be abandoned the highway and took GA83/441 from Macon to Toccoa. This route took us thru the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge and the Oconee National Forest ( and not one billboard). This path took us to Gray, Monticello, Madison, Watkinsville and then to the home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs:Athens.

We stopped for the night in Toccoa, GA. If your looking for it on a map, it in the NE corner just west of the South Carolina line and just south of the North Carolina line.

The RV park is extremely laid back. No check staff or check out staff just leave some money in an envelope...

Tomorrow the plan is the head to Franklin, NC as they advertise 12 mines with rubies and sapphires.  Weather permitting we'll do some slicing. This afternoon and evening have been on and off rain and thunderstorms.

Then we'll head up through the Great Smokey Mountains on the Blue Ridge Parkway and over the Appalachian Mts to Johnson City, Tennessee where we pickup US 81 thru the Shenandoah Valley.