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| Tuesday, April 19 Across Georgia | ||
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Road leading from Hilton Head down to Savannah
Once out of Savannah, Georgia was a pleasant surprise. I had envisioned hardscrabble farms with lots of eroded bare dirt -- but instead the northern part of Georgia is mostly wooded and remarkably beautiful. The greens are very intense -- even though the trees lean toward pines, they look so different from the blackish dark pines near Charleston. No spring flowers, though -- no dogwood, or redbud, or azaleas except in people's gardens. There were what appeared to be red clover in bloom along the road verges, like dark crimson stripes along the roadsides. I think Spring must be more advanced here because the temperatures are 20 degrees warmer than what I experienced in Tennessee and North Carolina. I had the A/C on in the car all day. | ||
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Hard to imagine why anyone chooses to drive on the crowded, boring Interstate, huh?
I had a couple of pictures of a really beautiful lake where I made my scenic lunch stop, but I guess I have not completely mastered the new camera yet, because the pictures are gone. Whine!
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Savannah in the morning was not quite so grim as it had appeared the previous evening, and the historical portion was interesting -- but not beautiful, encased as it is in a matrix of ugly working city. Plus, historic Charleston is mostly upscale residential areas; while historic Savannah is mostly commercial enterprises. Roads made from ballast from the ships, and old warehouses, are interesting but not the delight that the beautiful residences of Charleston are. I also did not get through the entire historic tour, because they had the roads torn up so badly you can not follow the charted path, and everything is one way the wrong way so it is too too much of a hassle to try to get anywhere. So I got out.
You've of course heard of Georgia's famous yellow dirt -- but it is quite a shock when you actually see it. Upon reflection, this yellow color would look quite natural in the Southwest, but when it is surrounded by green it just looks wierd. Shown is a road into a Kraft Paper tree farm; those are little bitty pine trees growing beside the road. Lumber for papermaking is obviously a major industry in this part of Georgia. I met with any number of log trucks on the road, loaded with skinny little logs that would not be useful for construction lumber.
