Osceola National Forest, FL to Savannah, GA | Visiting Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge | January 2024 After spending a great week in Florida, it was time to begin our journey North towards North Carolina. We left Osceola National Forest and drove further East on I-10, then North on FL-121 and entered Georgia on GA-23. Our…
Russell Cave National Monument | Noccalula Falls | Cheaha State Park, Alabama’s Highest Point | January 2023 On Thursday morning, we packed up our car once again and said goodbye to our last rental house of this trip. We drove North into Tennessee, took I-24 to Kimball, then went South on US-72 into Alabama. Our…
Hiking in Cloudland Canyon State Park, GA | January 2023 The morning of our last full day around Chattanooga was supposed to be rainy, so we decided the night before that we would sleep in and be productive in the morning, then spend the afternoon hiking at a nearby state park. It seemed like a…
DeSoto Falls State Park, Alabama | Little River Canyon National Preserve | January 2023 On our second day in the Chattanooga area, we awoke to temps in the 20s and frost on the ground. We bundled up for today’s adventures and once the frost was scraped from the car, we got on the road and…
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…