Amicalola Falls State Park, GA

Look what we saw! This is the tallest waterfall east of the Mississippi 729 feet. Awesome! This park also has an 8 mile approach trail to the southern end of the Appalachian Trail. We spent the day exploring northern Georgia. Lots of mountains, hairpin turns, and some really beautiful scenery. One thing we did learn - its not easy on the lungs going from sea level to mountains! We were going to go to the beginning of the trail, found the air very thin and hard to breath! Maybe we are just out of shape from hanging around the ocean for the winter. Currently we are on I81 N just south of Roanoke, Va. We have hit blizzards, sun, high winds and rain today. Also think we went over the tallest mountain in Georgia this morning trying to get to the Interstate. We had to unhook the car and I drove it until we got off the back roads. We will be in New Hampshire by the weekend! It will be good to be home - especially since we are cold already!

I had to share these with you.
The mountain is 825 feet tall and covers 583 acres. The top of the mountain is 1,683 feet above sea level.
The entire carved surface of the Memorial Carving measures three acres, larger than a football field. The carving of the three men towers 400 feet above the ground, measures 90 by 190 feet, and is recessed 42 feet into the mountain. The deepest point of the carving is at Lee's elbow, which is 12 feet to the mountain's surface.

TRAVELING THROUGH GEORGIA

Come along through Atlanta with us, actually the By-pass (I think we are both going to need a by-pass after this!) 6 lanes of craziness at 70 mph! There are sometimes I don't like being up in the RV, this is one! Whew! made it! We are on our way to Stone Mountain just outside of Atlanta.
We made it to Stone Mountain after a few wrong turns. I guess GPS is in order for next year. The Mountain is pretty cool, but very touristy.
We had a good day yesterday touring the Andersonville National Historic Site, home of the National POW Museum, Fort Sumter and a National Cemetery. We have been dodging storms all the way home, and think we may be okay from here on in. Looks like we may be home for Easter Sunday! We are going to spend a few days in Northern Georgia exploring the tallest waterfall east of the Mississippi, the Cherokee National Forest and surrounding area, hopefully driving skyline drive through the Great Smokey Mountain with the Jeep, not the RV.
I am still working on lots of pictures, can't wait to get back to the mountains when I will have more time to work on them. Keep melting that snow for us!