On the Road South

 September 24, 2023

It should be noted here that Jane was not 100% for a good bit of this trip.  She took few photos and since she is writing this blog 3 weeks after the trip it is short on detail!  

We left home headed towards Asheville on our way to the Alabama coast.  We had not driven this way in some time but decided to give it a try since we would be driving through Atlanta on a Sunday.  We stopped at the NC visitor center for a bathroom break before heading around Asheville.  There were lots of the flowers blooming there that we had been seeing this morning.  

 

Beautiful Grass along I 26

Ragweed

Butterfly Weed seed pods

New York Asters

Black Eye Susan

 

We then headed on 25 towards Travelers Rest and around Greeneville SC to hit I85 towards Atlanta. Although we had not been on this road for some years it was quite familiar. We stopped for lunch and managed to hit the outskirts of Atlanta about 1 PM. I can’t imagine what the traffic would be like on a weekday. 

 

One of MANY interchanges in Atlanta area

 

There was an inner lane you could pay extra to drive in that had very little traffic today.  While there was not bumper to bumper traffic there were so many lane changes that it took both of us and Waze to keep us in the right lanes – on to I 285 and back on to I 85 headed towards Newman GA and our stop for the night. 

One of numerous factories along this route

We made it and were very glad to be out of the car and settled into our room.  Ben wanted to order Chinese food and have it delivered.  Jane did her first online order to be delivered.  It arrived as promised and she picked it up in the hotel lobby. Probably not the best Chinese food we have ever had but it was hot and tasty.