Day 13: FD Roosevelt State Park, GA to Asheville East KOA, Nc

Posted byweegtravelPosted in2023, Georgia 2023

Our destination for tonight indicates that we are on our way north to home on Tuesday.

It’s a gorgeous morning after a coolish night. Temperatures are in the 40s. Tshirts and capris are packed away and back to long pants and plaid shirts. We tested the heater this morning. We were cleaned up, packed up and away by 8:30. We have a lot of miles to go today. I will probably drive for a bit and should also get some work done on my quilt. We need to get around Atlanta but at least it’s Sunday morning? Does that make a difference?

I85 through Atlanta. We are in a 15 minute delay. Question answered about Sunday morning making a difference. Apparently not.

This is strictly a travel day so keeping to interstates to make time. A lot of construction through Atlanta and north on I85. Now in South Carolina the foliage has changed with Dogwoods and Cherry trees in full bloom. We stopped for lunch at a hopping restaurant called Carolina Fine Foods on Hwy 25 north of Greenville at a place called Travelers Rest. The whole world is out shopping!

South Carolina highways are probably the worst of any we have travelled. I85 is only marginally better than I95. We have seen no evidence of road construction anywhere.

Moving north towards North Carolina we are now climbing into the hills. Once across the border into NC the highway magically improved. Scenery is gorgeous. Extensive road construction on Hwy 25 to Asheville.

Asheville, NC tonight is just a stop over on the way north. We spent a weekend in the Asheville and Great Smokey Mountains National Park area on our trip to Tennessee last November.

Great Smokey Mountains National Park
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Tomorrow we plan to explore the Blue Ridge Parkway.

A lovely surprise after a day on the road, a riverside campsite on a beautiful day.
View from inside the ‘tent’

This campsite and pond have those funny ‘bi-racial’ ducks, half mallard and half domesticated white duck. Many species of waterfowl form hybrids, and Mallards are particularly known for this, hybridizing with American Black Duck, Mottled Duck, Gadwall, Northern Pintail, Cinnamon Teal, Green-winged Teal, and Canvasback, as well as Hawaiian Ducks, Mexican Duck, the Grey Duck of New Zealand, and the Pacific Black Duck of Australia.