Sunday, October 18, 2020

Back in Georgia - October

 We landed in Georgia on the 6th and stayed two nights at Margaritaville RV Resort at Lake Lanier to get the Flair cleaned out and get moved into the Voltage at Neil and Pam's.  

It's a beautiful resort (it ought to be - $72/night during the week), and this is where we're going to have the family camping trip in November. Concrete pads, our spot right on the lake.


We had a little trouble getting moved back in.  The big living room slide wouldn't go out (one of the slide motors has gone bad) so Neil, Pam and Mike had to push an inch at a time as I worked the slide controls.  Then we found lots of leaks.  The bedroom slide had been leaking and rotted out the bottom with lots of mildew on the carpet, and the roof over the garage had leaked and rotted the plywood underneath.  Mike has that all fixed now, thank goodness!   We ordered our metal roof, but it'll be 12 to 14 weeks before they can get it they are so backlogged.  That will be a relief to have that.

Neil and Pam took us to NoFo Brewery our first weekend back, and we enjoyed tacos from the food truck.  Rainy, dreary, cold day but we had fun.


Yesterday we were back at NoFo with Katie, Mike, Ella, Taylor, Live, Neil and Pam to celebrate Mike's birthday.  It was a beautiful fall day.  Chase and Jake were working, and it was Angie and Scott's anniversary, so we'll see them today for supper.  Maybe Nate and Mila too.







Thursday, October 1, 2020

On the road 9/29 to....

 After leaving Shirley and the Golden Pond RV Park, we had a very short drive through the Ozarks to a Harvest Host called Paw Paw's Pecan Farm in Atkins, AR.  Of course we had to stop there!!!  Great place, beautiful and quiet, and the owners gave us a tour of their home (which is also a B&B).  We bought jam, muscadine jelly, and canned tomatoes.  MMMMMMM!


What a great, peaceful place to camp!

Their home from the driveway.  Beautiful!

From Paw Paw's Pecans we headed to Canton, MS.  This town is just north of Jackson, and is very close to the Natchez Trace.  We wanted to explore the southern part of the Trace after exploring the northern part last fall.


Part of the old Trace




 

Rocky Springs ghost town. It started to decline during the Civil War, General Grant stayed in town to rally his troops before the battle at Vicksburg. After that, yellow fever, boll weevils, and the spring dried up, so the town was abandoned.

Rocky Springs is an old town site.  All that remains is this safe and a cistern

Rocky Springs Methodist Church built in 1837, still in use today

Church cemetary



Then we had a picnic along the way.


Mount Locust is a home along the Trace that was used as an inn for travelers, and was also a farm. 





We ended up in Natchez on the Mississippi River.  We had a great day!