GEORGIA...on our mind

Arrived in Georgia last Friday. We had reservations at Holiday Harbor Marina & Campground, but when we got there the sites were too tight for our size coach and the roads were narrow, uneven and hilly. After spending a week at the less than desirable site in Tennessee, Ron was on the phone in minutes and got us into another campground very close. We are staying at the Allatoona Landing Marine & Campground.


This is where we are now staying. Sunrise over Lake Allatoona.


Mornings are so cool creating a mist till mid morning.



We are 1/2 hour from Atlanta, but really have no desire at this time to visit. So we stayed near the camp and visited the Etowah Indian Mounds on Saturday, attended Mass today, drove through Red Mountain Top State Park and got ready to hit the road tomorrow.

The Etowah Indian Mounds was home to several thousand Native Americans between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D. It is on a 54-acre site and contains six earthen mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow pits and defensive ditch. This is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeast.

Only nine percent of this site has been excavated, however, many artifacts have been revealed and displayed. The Etowah Indian Mounds symbolize a society rich in ritual.

The largest mound is a 63-foot flat-topped earthen knoll covering 3 acres and was likely used as a platform for the home of the priest-chief. This is supposedly the second largest mound with the Monk Mound at Cahokia Mounds being the largest at over 100 feet.


Temple Mound. We had to walk up 123 steps to reach the top. But it presented a great view of the entire grounds and the Etowah River.



Wattle and Daub construction was typically used for housing. A very complex method in which vertical wooden stakes, (wattles) are woven with horizontal twigs and branches and then daubed with clay or mud. This method is one of the oldest known for making a weatherproof structure. They only used the house to sleep in, spending the majority of their day in the outdoors.

We had to drive to historic downtown Cartersville to see the first Coca Cola sign ever painted on a building. It was first painted in 1894 on the side of the Young Brothers Pharmacy and remains to this day. Whatever it takes to get your name on the map!!



We have a one night layover in Cordele Georgia then will be in Florida. We will be spending the winter travelling around Florida with our longest stay in Jupiter. Can't wait to get to warmer weather. The nights here have been in the high 20's and low 30's ....brrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Hope all is well!