My birthday was 11/6, we asked a couple friends to join us for a few days at Vogel St Park in N GA mountains. They rented a cottage and we pulled the camper. Checked in Sunday, 11/8-11/12. We may have been a week late on the best leaf color, but it was still very nice... Miz Carol took somewhile I was driving around Gainesville and Cleveland... Other mountain views.. First fire Sunday night... Monday morning fire... Yep, I had my Grinch shoes on, my feets were warm... We were going to cook ribs Monday night, but they didn't thaw out enough, so we rode with our friends over towards Young Harris... Saw some elk standing by the road... Stopped by a sorghum syrup mill, they weren't cooking any, but had some for purchase, we got 2 jars... Huge pile of cane stalks behind the sheds... Resident squirrel was friendly... Tuesday morning our friends rode with us to Brasstown Bald, highest peak in GA...on the ride over... View of the top... 1st look over he mountains The sign at the observation deck... Hiawassee Ga and Lake Chatuge in the valley below
Happy belated birthday and thanks for sharing the beautiful views with us Looks like it was a relaxing trip.
Took pictures of the mountains and signs all around us... The observation center Made it back to camp and we got supper cooked, added potato salad and macaroni salad. Our friends left Wednesday morning, so we drove over to Helen, GA. It's modeled after a Bavarian town... First stop was in Blairsville GA for breakfast... They had some nice little signs on the walls Made it to Helen. The Chattahoochee River, it's full of tubers in the summer Miz Carol trying to convince Santa she's been good... Nice Christmas tree in downtown Helen I guess the desert scene got a little hot...looks like the cactus survived...don't know what caused the fire... Windmill on the edge of town... Outside of town is an old grist mill They still use this one occasionally, but water levels have been low this year. They have a mill upstairs that's converted to electricity for most milling. yooperdave don't you agree? A coffee roaster is next door, it was closed when we got there...... This is Yonah Mountian, close to Cleveland GA... A view of Yonah from Russell Scenic Hwy. Miz Carol did a video of part of our drive on the scenic hwy, missed the couple signs with 12% grade...Definitely locked Godzilla in a low gear to save the brakes... Heading home today, would definitely recommend this park. Our site, #50, had a stream behind us and the bathhouse was across the road from us...nice trees around us...
Looks like you had awesome weather. Camping at this time of year is not quite so busy. Thanks for taking us along on your trip.
