Ride Back North from Florida - July 7-13, 2008
These pictures were taken with my Fujifilm Finepix S9000 digital
camera on a ride from Naples, Florida, to Amsterdam, New York, July
7-13, 2008. Images are shown at a resolution of 640x480, but many are
available cropped from the originals or in half of original size by
clicking on the links after the captions.
A lot of the pictures are just from the roads, but there were some
intersting places and things mixed in.
Monday, July 7, 2008
We left Naples mid-afternoon and went primarily up I-75 for the
afternoon and evening. We left I-75 near Lake City and took US 41 to
get dinner, and stayed on 41 into Georgia, just for something
different [21 Pictures]. We continued
only a short way into Georgia (back on I-75) and stopped for the night
in Valdosta.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Not too much ground to cover, with our plan to see a Space Museum and
a baseball game in Columbus. We took a route along Georgia 133 and
Georgia 37 [44 Pictures] to Camilla
[14 Pictures], then north on US 19 to
Albany [22 Pictures]. From there it was
US 82 and Georgia 520 West, then US 280 West up to
Columbus [21 Pictures]. After a
little driving tour of Columbus and Phenix City, we got an excellent
lunch at a small deli in downtown [24
Pictures]. We spent a couple hours at Columbus State University's
Space Science Center [11 Pictures], then
checked into the hotel, and made our way
back [18 Pictures] to the downtown area
for the South Atlantic League baseball game between the Kannapolis
Intimidators and Columbus Catfish. Pictures are
from outside before the game [14
Pictures], and in the park before and during the
game [31 Pictures plus 2 Scorecard Scans].
Wednesday, July 9. 2008
Another relatively short travel day. We left Columbus in the morning
and took I-185, I-85, I-285, I-75, and I-575 to get by the Atlanta
area [35 Pictures]. Then it was onto
the smaller roads into the mountains: Georgia 5 to US 76 to Spur 60
[18 Pictures] into North Carolina, then
combinations of US 19/64/74/129 [33
Pictures] into Robbinsville for
lunch [7 Pictures]. It was an easy
ride [10 Pictures] from there to the
cabin [31 Pictures], where we met up with
the bigger group. We spent the afternoon in and near the cabin,
including a walk across the street to a fishing
pond [38 Pictures].
Thursday, July 10, 2008
After a morning at the cabin, we got on our way with the whole group.
Our first stop was at the Yellow Branch Pottery shop to buy some
cheese [6 Pictures]. Then after a
quick stop back at the cabin and a cell phone check on a hill for some
(no signal at the cabin) [6 Pictures]
and a drive into Cherokee [28
Pictures]. We walked around Cherokee a
bit [16 Pictures] then left the bigger
group. We continued on up into Great Smoky Mountains National
Park [5 Pictures]. We made stops on
the way up at a pullout along the Oconaluftee
River [5 Pictures], at a quiet
walkway [13 Pictures], at the Webb
Overlook [9 Pictures], another
overlook [7 Pictures], and along
a horseshoe curve [6 Pictures].
Near the summit, we made the side trip to the summit of Clingman's
Dome [40 Pictures] before
stopping at Newfound Gap [23
Pictures]. On the way down on the Tennesee side, we made stops at
the Morton Overlook [6 Pictures]
and a turnout along the West Prong of the Little Pigeon
River [9 Pictures]. At that point,
it was getting late and raining hard, so we made no more stops on the
way out of the park [7 Pictures]. The
rest of the day was a ride through the mess of Gatlinburg and the
other towns and on out to I-40 and I-81 [31
Pictures].
Friday, July 11, 2008
Abingdon, Virginia, to Ashburn, Virginia, with a little side trip to
southeastern West Virginia. We left the very nice Quality Inn in
Abingdon [Picture] and started the side
trip with a much more interesting than expected ride on Virginia route
80 through Hayters Gap [29 Pictures].
From there, we took US 19 and then US 460 to
Bluefield [19 Pictures]. Into West
Virginia, we made our way to I-77 North and then I-64
East [44 Pictures]. Back in Virginia, it ws
I-64, with a lunch stop in Covington, then I-81 to Virginia 7 and on
in by late afternoon [48 Pictures].
Saturday, July 12, 2008
No pictures during the day in Ashburn, just some on the ride into DC
late in the afternoon [11 Pictures], and
then from the Nationals Game, where I once again completed my
collection of all current Major League ballparks with my first visit
to newly-opened National Park [Link to pages of
pictures].
Sunday, July 13, 2008
We left mid-morning from Ashburn and took US 15 to I-81 to I-88 and
then NY 30 up to Amsterdam, with a stop for Brooks BBQ in Oneonta
along the way [23 Pictures]. Easy ride
and we were in Amsterdam before 7.
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