The Georgia Sense of Direction

Last weekend the Hubs and I went to spend some time with my parents in Georgia. They own a vacation home near the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was just what we needed. Four days of lounging around in our pajamas, watching movies, and getting lost ... a lot.

Getting lost wasn't our plan but Georgia has some pretty bad signage. Even the airport was horrendous. You would think that the large international airport in Atlanta would have the best directions and signage for all the different kinds of travelers but no, they don't. We walked the wrong way to the main terminal (maybe our mistake), had to look at the directory to find the car rental area which didn't help because we couldn't figure out where we were on the directory, walked passed the car rental agency, and spent about an hour trying to figure out how to get back to the airport arrivals to pick up my parents. We didn't bring our GPS so we used our iPhone maps application. It couldn't figure out where we were. It was an adventure to say the least.


On Saturday, the guys and I went on a hiking adventure. Of course we got lost again. The first time we missed the exit off the highway and after that it was at the ol' fork in the road which really wasn't a fork; it was a backwards fork. After finding the correct fork in the road and about about half way up the hill to the hiking trail we here BING. Car is low on gas. Fabulous. As we are chuckling away and joking about being stranded in the middle of the Georgia mountains with no gas or cell service we hit a patch of ice and the little rental yelps out another BING. This day is getting better by the minute.


We finally made it to the Bear Creek trail and started hiking. This is a fairly easy trial so it was more like walking at a slight incline. Easy-peasy. Crossing the little streams? Not so easy. I was trying so hard not to slip off the rocks that I ended up putting my foot in the water 3 times. Thank goodness I was wearing Dryfit socks. They dried out before we reached out 1.5 mile marker ... the Gennett Poplar.


The Gennett Poplar is the 2nd largest tree in the state. I forgot to mention, this is the whole reason we came-a-hiking. Getting lost, possibly stranded with no gas, and almost careening off the hill - all for a tree.

We came, we saw, we conquered. Another 1.5 miles back and we hit the road and headed on home. We got lost again. Gotta love Georgia.