KOA, Valdosta, GA, to KOA, Cartersville, GA:  Left Valdosta this morning at 9:00 with me behind the wheel.  Drove north on I-75 through a rural Georgia agrarian landscape, passing lots of pecan groves.  Love pecan groves.  Spring is in full bloom with trees leafing out in myriad shades of green, dogwoods and other flowering trees in full bloom.  Very pretty.  I drove for 2-1/2 hours and stopped for something to eat about 40 miles south of Atlanta.  Mike took over driving.  We took the I-285 bypass around Atlanta which wasn’t too bad—until we hit the intersection of I-285 and I-75 north which dumped us out onto 8 lanes of traffic.  We’re in the middle of the 8 lanes!.  Mike was fine.  I was gripping the “oh god” bar the whole way.  But we made it to Cartersville in one piece and were set up by 3:30—which isn’t bad considering we stopped once to eat and twice for fuel.  Again, this is a really nice KOA tucked into the pines and dogwoods.  After we got set up I made us both a cocktail which we enjoyed outside at our picnic table.  Tomorrow we head to Nashville and will stay two nights to regroup, or something.  80 here in Cartersville in the foothills of the No. Georgia mountains.  I lived in Atlanta for 7-1/2 years.  But it has grown so much since then. 

Atlanta--my stomping grounds for 7-1/2 years.

Pulling into the KOA in Cartersville, GA

Tucked into the pines and dogwoods.