Macon to Montgomery

Monday, April 17…

Travel Day. Great start, then about 10 miles out the road is closed: BRIDGE OUT. We turn south as directed by the DETOUR sign and travel through a small town. Several minutes later we realize we’re gonna have to re-route ourselves. We turn west onto the next 4-lane divided highway, locate it on the map and proceed accordingly. Shortly after we had re-oriented ourselves, we passed huge fields of an unusual "crop" - solar panels! 

Note black line on the horizon.

Vertical rows of panels harvesting solar energy.

Gunter Hill Campground (outskirts of Montgomery) has nice big sites, but the road needs repaving and spews up clouds of dry dust every time a vehicles passes our rig. Greg has hosed it down a few times, which helps. 

Right behind our MH

Muddy, but Peaceful

Missed Site... FDR's Little White House (Warm Springs, GA). Tourism isn't a top priority with us, but sometimes there are spots we wish we had stopped to visit. Today, as we were 

re-navigating south of our planned route, we saw a couple signs for the Little White House, the private retreat FDR had built b/c he visited Warm Springs so often. (The springs couldn't cure his polio, of course, but they did relieve some of the pain and/or stiffness. He loved going there.) The side trip would have cost us an hour or so, so we skipped it. We will not skip Hyde Park, however, when we're in New York. (I am a great fan of Doris Kearns Goodwin's books on the Roosevelts.)

(aptly named)