2020 Georgia – part 14: Gordonaia-Alatamaha State Park, Santa Claus, and best fruitcake ever
Our 3rd state park of this trip took us to this park that’s actually in the city limits of Reidsville that’s just due west of Savannah. Why did we come...
2020 Georgia – part 15: Vidalia’s sweet onion museum
When we moved to Georgia almost 20 years ago, we started seeing sweet onions in the grocery stores, and I started using them every Thanksgiving in our Thanksgiving stuffing. After...
2020 Georgia – part 16: Fort Yargo State Park’s trails – taking a hike
On our next 3-state park trip, we started out at Fort Yargo State Park just about 80 miles due east of where we live. Like our last park, this one...
2020 Georgia – part 17: Fort Yargo State Park’s history – the beginnings of forts in America
This park takes us back in time to after the Revolutionary War and before the turn of the century (1800) as the colonists started to become a new nation and...
2020 Georgia – part 18: Virginia Bryant State Park – one of Georgia’s best kept secrets, a tie to one of baseball’s greats
Nestled in the rolling hills of Georgia’s upper Piedmont, between the Atlantic coastal plain and the main Appalachian Mountains (stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in...