This entry was posted on 6/14/2008 6:59 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Above Photo: Steve and Mary at the Georgia/Tennessee State Line in Mccaysville/Copperhill.We're baaaaack!!!
Mary and I spent a great day of just plain ol' "roadtrippin'" through the mountains of North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee.
From Murphy, we headed out US 64 east toward Hayesville, stopping at the
John C. Campbell Folk School to check out some mountain crafts and the scenery up close and personal. The school does a lot of craft classes and Mary would like to go back there soon and take one of their various courses.
After leaving there, we continued into Clay County (another one "clinched") and picked up NC 69 to head back into Georgia (where it becomes GA 17/515), and then westbound on US 76/GA 2/515 to Young Harris, stopping by
Young Harris College (YHC) for a brief campus visit. My late father-in-law is a YHC alum and both of us wanted to see what the college was like.
From YHC, it was off to Blairsville, where we stopped at a Zaxby's to eat. The manager noticed my GRG t-shirt and inquired about the website and what it was about. Perhaps I got another would-be visitor out of the deal.
After lunch, we headed west on 515 to GA 60, and up GA 60 to it's end at GA 5/TN 68 in the "twin cities" of McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee. Once I crossed the state line (painted in blue on the road BTW), I "clinched" Polk County, Tennessee. Here's my obligatory "roadgeek photo" to commemorate the event...
After snapping some photos on the state line and checking out the shops, we headed up TN 68 to Ducktown and
checked out the
Ducktown Basin Museum and Burra Burra Mining Site, a former copper mining and processing site that is now owned by the State of Tennessee. The museum contained a good many mining-related artifacts and a history of the mines and how it devastated the environment within a 50-mile radius. Fortunately, trees have long since been replanted and the area looks nothing like the barren landscape that it was during the heyday of the industry.
After visting the mining site, we headed west on US 64/74 through the
Cherokee National Forest and then southward on US 411 back into Georgia to "clinch" Murray County, and finally back to 515 and HQ via US 76/GA 282 (the Appalachian Foothills Parkway).
During our trip, I mounted the new suction-cup monopod to the windshield and shot some "
ROADGEEK-CAM!!!" footage in Georgia and North Carolina. I'm kinda tired right now from our roadtrip and need to get back to my wife and continue celebrating our 5 years of wedded bliss.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading and "Happy Father's Day" to all the dads out there.
