Georgia on our minds ...

... as we head off for a week there. The first part of our trip has almost become routine, heading out bright and early onto I-95 to I-295 to I-10 westwards, bright and early being around 7 am. The change in direction came when I-10 reached I-75 which we took north into Georgia.

The main difference with this trip is that Geoff is driving Timmber Wolf while I am following in our Outback, known as Shady Lady. The distance is only a few hours and since our plans are to stay at the one RV park and visit several locations in the area, it will be really nice to have the car and not have to mess around with either getting a rental or hooking up and unhooking Wolf every day.

The Subaru's adaptive cruise control is great for this kind of following. I just set it the top speed Geoff will be driving in Wolf, usually about 70 as he is generally closer to 65. The car will stay a reasonable distance behind Wolf, adapting its speed to the vehicle in front of it, in this case usually Wolf except when some idiot dodges into the space between us.

The greatest portion of the trip is on the easy to navigate interstates and so I lead only a few times where the navigation is a bit trickier, including parts of GA 96. It is harder to be the leader as the Outback tends to run away from Wolf so close attention must be paid to the rear view so as not to leave him in my dust so to speak.

Although pleasant, there isn't much unusual or different about the scenery until we headed west on GA 96 towards Columbus, Georgia, our destination.

Soon after clearing the commercial area right near the interstate we see fields full of black or blue glass panels, the color difference seems to be mostly how the sun hits them. GA 96 passes between some of these fields so there are acres of this strange crop on both sides of the road.


We reached our RV park about 3 pm leaving us plenty of daylight to get hooked up and settled in. The Lake Pines RV Park is very nice, set out on some gently rolling space with plenty of trees. Some of the area seems to be in use by people storing their RV's, principally fifth wheels. Although rural in location, the park is not far from the city of Columbus and a good central hub for our various destinations.

After getting all hooked up to shore power and water, we do simple for dinner using a two portion Mountain House spaghetti dinner in  the microwaveable Dixie cups and some cookies for dessert! An early night after a long day and we will be nicely rested for tomorrow's adventure!