Jun 26, 2012 - June 21-26, 2012 -- Georgia and Tennessee

June 21-26, 2012 – Georgia and Tennessee June 21, 2012 – Today I slept in and then met Sarah for lunch in Dalton. My laptop was acting up so we stopped at Office Depot to see if they could solve the problem. I had downloaded the newest version of the windows program flashplayer. After that none of the websites which required that program would work. They weren’t able to solve it so we took the laptop to the computer center at Dalton State. They were able to remove the new version and re-install an earlier version so that everything is...

Jun 20, 2012 - June 20, 2012 -- Adairsville to Rome, Georgia to Mentone, Alabama

June 20, 2012 – Adairsville to Rome, Georgia to Mentone, Alabama Today, I headed to Rome, Georgia. It is a really nice town. In front of the City Hall is a statue of Romulus and Remus being nursed by a wolf. The real purpose of going to Rome was to see the “Tomb of the Known Soldier”. The Tomb of the Known Soldier is a monument in Rome dedicated to a soldier killed in WWI – Private Charles Graves Charles Graves enlisted in the Army on August 16, 1917; he was eighteen years old at the time. He was eventually shipped to Neuroy, France, a...

Jun 19, 2012 - June 19, 2012 -- Adairsville, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee

June 19, 2012 – Adairsville to Chattanooga, TN to Gadsden, AL This morning I got a fairly early start. I wanted to drive the Lookout Mountain Parkway from beginning to end. It starts in Chattanooga and passes through a corner of Georgia before entering Alabama and ending in Gadsden. The 1st place I stopped was the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is not part of the Parkway, but it was on the way so I stopped to see it. The Battle of Chickamauga was the 1st Civil...

Jun 18, 2012 - June 8-18, 2012 -- Huntsville, Alabama to Adairsville, Georgia

June 8-18, 2012 – Huntsville, Alabama to Adairsville, Georgia June 8 – I spent the morning at Burritt on the Mountain. This house was built on top of the mountain by a wealthy physician in 1936. The house is eclectic in architectural style (classical revival, federal and art deco) and used 2,200 bales of wheat straw as insulation. In 1955 he willed it to the city of Huntsville, and it became Huntsville 1st museum. The grounds include a collection of frontier houses of various styles of the 19th century. It was an interesting morning, and I...

Aug 28, 2010 - Into Ga

Well we finally got out of Florida and the rain! We left The Villages at about 7 AM and headed up I-75. Since it was Saturday, we were not worried about getting around or through Atlanta. So we just took our time motoring up the interstate. The traffic was pretty light. We stopped around 11 am for lunch at a rest stop and Susan took over driving and drove until we got to Macon. Then it was through Atlanta and on up I-75 until we got to Adairsville. It is about 50 miles north of Atlanta. We are staying in a really small RV park. I would...

May 15, 2010 - Don't ya just love Southern Hospitality.

Well Tony was feeling a bit better today – still hasn’t got much of a voice… so we took our merry time and left Tifton some time between 9:30 and 10am. We knew that we were only going 220 miles today… so what was the rush? Wow just a couple of days ago I was singing the praises of the little Honda CRV giving us 24 MPG. I forgot that she’s a little “city slicker” and all the mileage she does is in and around the city. Even on the Interstates going into town most of the time she has to be in stop/start mode. Now that she is on the open road...

Sep 28, 2009 - Adairsville, GA - Harvest Moon RV Park

The trip from Louisville to Adairsville was about 365 miles and took aboout seven hours including a huge traffic jam in Nashville and filling the Mothership up at 2.159 per gallon. I am not used to all of this traffic! I'm afraid it will take a little time to get acclimated after five months of driving where there is very little traffic. We did find out for sure though that we don't like driving on interstates and we don't like driving to reach a certain place (like home) as quick as we can. We much prefer the back roads and only going...