Cloudy this morning but no rain… yet.
Today we leave the flat topography of southern Georgia and head into hillier more treed areas passing peanut farms, some wheat fields and pecan orchards. The pecans are still bare from winter, some just barely showing spring foliage.
Also trying to update several days of my blog as we travel but network is hit or miss still. Mainly miss. Come on T-Mobile, you can do better than this!
Churches: I haven’t yet commented on the churches down here, mainly baptist and all their different belief systems but others as well. Sooooo many churches from the very large to small rural ones. I can’t help but wonder if there is enough population to support them all. I recently read that there are 42,000 denominations of Christian churches. I’m beginning to believe that might be true.
Swamp Fox Distillery, Buena Vista, GA
We visited this local distillery located in Marion County and sampled their wares. They have been in business about 5 years and call themselves a grain to bottle distillery ie they do it all. Their labels tell the history of the area and the story of the ‘swamp fox’. We purchase a bottle of bourbon labelled “F. Marion”.
The Swamp Fox: Brigadier General Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the American Revolution, Marion supported the Patriot cause and enlisted in the Continental Army, fighting against British forces in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1781. Though he never commanded a field army or served as a commander in a major engagement, Marion’s use of irregular warfare against the British has led him to be considered one of the fathers of guerrilla and maneuver warfare, and his tactics form a part of the modern-day military doctrine of the U.S. Army‘s 75th Ranger Regiment.
We drove through a thunderstorm that drenched the roads.
We stopped for lunch in a tiny place called Talbotton for burgers and fried chicken at the Big Chic. I don’t think we can get any more stereotypical rural Georgia than this.
F.D. Roosevelt State Park is a 9,049 acres Georgia state park located near Pine Mountain and Warm Springs. The park is named for former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who sought a treatment for his paralytic illness in nearby Warm Springs at the Little White House. The park is located along the Pine Mountain Range. The western portion of the park, formerly named Pine Mountain State Park, was named a National Historic Landmark in 1997. F.D. Roosevelt State Park is Georgia’s largest state park
This has been a relaxing trip as we didn’t move every day. I’ve been finishing up the dregs of books I started ages ago. So far I’ve finished 1 Kindle book and 3 Audible books and have 2/3 of my quilt hand quilted. Our campsite for tonight is reasonably close to the ‘lake’.
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