Thursday, April 20, 2017

We’re in Georgia, less than six hours from our destination, St. George Island, Florida!

The day started out with beautiful weather, and we had a short drive from our Stone Mountain State Park Campground to Boone, North Carolina, were our friends Joy and Paul Mance now live.  Unfortunately, Joy and Paul are at their home in Alex Bay, NY.  Boone is also the home of Appalachian State University, so it’s a lively town in a very picturesque mountain setting.  We really liked it.  Reminded me of Colorado.  We drove by Joy and Paul’s previous home (we don’t have their new address) and had a fantastic breakfast at Melanie’s Food Fantasy.  Boone is also the home of Doc Watson, that’s Doc, next to me on the park bench.

I finally got a haircut, having to settle for Smart Cuts since Floyd’s was closed in Mt. Airy, and then we drove up the beautiful artsy village of Blowing Rock which was less than 10 miles from Boone.  Blowing Rock also reminded me of Colorado.  In Blowing Rock we took a quick walking tour and filled up our coffee mugs at a funky climbing boutique and coffee shop.

We returned to our car and headed south for our planned stop for the evening in Columbia, South Carolina, but it started to pour, so we just kept driving until 8:45 PM, and luckily found a vacancy at a very clean state campground in Jackson, Georgia.  We covered 417 miles today, our most of this trip, and now have less than six hours of driving left before we can put our feet in the Gulf of Mexico on St. George’s Island.