Georgia On Our Minds

Fort Gaines, Georgia

Weather: low 73 degrees in Ocala, Florida, high 94 degrees in Fort Gaines, Georgia, clear skies

We left Ocala shortly after 0800 hours this morning. After a great visit, it was time to start moving north in an attempt to find cooler weather within the next two weeks.

When we went to Florida about eight days ago, the worst part of the trip was going through four towns in Alabama. We decided we would take a different route back to Alabama, which found us here in Fort Gaines, Georgia tonight. We will be here until Monday, when we will leave for Tuscaloosa, Alabama and a visit of one to two weeks with Terri and Thomas. Then it’s on to the north and Tennessee.

We are staying in an Army Corp of Engineers park on William F. George Lake, a lake of 45,000 acres on the Georgia/Alabama state lines. Damming of the Chattahoochee River created the lake. This is probably the most isolated COE park we have ever stayed at. The closest town of any size is about 30 miles away, and cell phone signals are almost non-existent. The park has about 100 sites, and our site backs up to the lake. Some of the people around us have their boats tied up to the shore, so they can leave their RVs and jump in the boats, ready to go fishing in minutes.

I was outside when our next door neighbors came back from a cookout. They had a gallon bag of catfish fillets that were still warm from the fire, and asked me if I would like some fish. Well, of course I said yes. They gave me the whole bag. There's going to be some good eating tonight, tomorrow, the next day....

Since the cell phone signal is so weak, I have to leave our site and go to a different part of the park to check on calls and post the blog. If anyone needs to get in touch with us, leave a message on the cell phone and we’ll call back as soon as possible.

More later, be safe.

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Not all who wander are lost.