Visiting Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | January 2023 Just South of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River rises the imposing mass that is known as Lookout Mountain. This mountain (which is actually more a plateau) was the centerpiece of all of our day trips while staying in Chattanooga, so it’s worth talking about at…
Amicalola Falls State Park | Fort Mountain State Park | January 2023 Just as predicted, Sunday was a cold and rainy day. If we had already been in our next rental house, we probably would’ve just taken the day to relax, but we couldn’t check in until after 3. That gave us 8 hours to…
Hiking Rabun Mountain | Panther Falls | Tallulah Gorge State Park | January 2023 Today was our one full day in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, and we went into it with a few specific goals in mind. We wanted to visit every county on the Northern border (our maps would look weird if…
Tellico Plains, TN to the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains | Hiking Blood Mountain | DeSoto Falls Recreation Area | January 2023 On Friday morning, it was time to leave our cabin in Tellico Plains and move on. We had found a rental house near Chattanooga, TN that was very affordable and had everything we look…
Scenic Driving in Cherokee National Forest | Hiking a Section of the Benton McKay Trail | January 2023 By our last full day in Tellico Plains, we had sort of run out of things to do nearby. Additionally, Curtis had a meeting at 1 which made it difficult to drive further to do things —…
Visiting Fort Loudon State Historic Park | Vonore, TN | January 2023 At this point during our stay in Tellico Plains, we had gone South, South West, and East, and so we decided that it was well time to go North. I laid out a plan to visit a couple historic spots, and then to…