Is there such a thing as too many curves? Probably not
https://goo.gl/maps/HKdqrLKeT5Y34jRK8Joe showed up here Saturday afternoon, and me and Carolyn and Joe hung out, ate muscadines and cooked
steaks... Sunday morning Joe and I headed off on some of my favorite roads. I brought the BFGPS,
so we were never lost...
We stopped at
the Christmas tree lake overlook, the mountains off into the distance
looked particularly cool today...
Anyone who has used 64 near Highlands but hasn't been there lately won't
recognize it... they've blasted it practically straight for a few miles...
We went up T-Bird's "favorite road" a while...
We also used some roads that connect 281 and 215, I'd forgotten how good Tonasee Gap
road is...
We talked to this 86 year old Korean war vet for a while. He told us stories about
chopping cotton and picking beans for 50 cents an hour in Oklahoma and about
getting side swiped by a hit-and-runner when he was 19, he was in the passenger
seat. They caught up with the hit-and-runner at a stop light, and he hopped out
and yanked the hit-and-runner's door open so he would whip his a**... the
hit-and-runner punched the gas and the next thing the fellow we were talking
to remembers is waking up in the hospital with a compound fractured leg
and a bunch of cuts. He told us a bunch of other stories too, and the people
coming in and out of the store we were at all knew him by name and joined
in talking too...
We continued on to Ellijay road which is a great road, lots of curves and elevation
changes, and the temperature dropped nicely while we were on it...
We followed the BFGPS on some more roads past there and by-passed
Franklin (and its holiday traffic) totally. Joe and I split up at the
end of Sanderstown road, he continued on the rest of the way home
on 28 (it has a name you might have heard - The Moonshiner)... and
also through the Dragon... I think he must have gotten enough
curves today! I went home on some good roads, including Walnut
Creek road (the sister road to Ellijay road) and tried a couple of
new-to-me roads that I passed... one really good road went a long way
off to the middle-of-nowhere and then went dirt. Another brought me
to 64 (the unstraightend part) a few miles from Cashiers and then 107
towards home
-Mike
