6-16-18 over to Macon again

Our nearest "big" city is Macon.  With a population of about 154,000, it's only about half the size of St. Louis.  It doesn't sprawl out like St. Louis county, either.  St. Louis county has over 1,000,000 people.  Perry only has about 16.000 people in it.  I really do feel like we're in the country now!  So when we want to see the big city, we go to Macon.

The ride to Macon is about 30 minutes, about the time it takes to drive from our suburb city of Florissant (56,000 people) to downtown St. Louis.  But we sure don't have views like this on our drive in St. Louis!  Most of the way to Macon is along farmlands.  But today the clouds were the attraction.

 Downtown Macon is much quieter than St. Louis, too. 

 It's more of an artsie town.

 We headed to Ocmulgee Brewery for lunch again.

 It was as good as the last time.

Interesting set up with all the picnic tables inside.

 heading back out.

 love the tree lined streets of Macon.

 Lots of history here.  Glad to see they aren't defacing and tearing down the statues and the history of Macon like what's happening in so many other cities now.

 While we were in town, we hit up an estate sale.  Interesting ride through the neighborhoods, but the sale was pretty much a dud.

 One final stop---at Bass Pro shop for some father's day shopping.

 Then back on the highway to head home to Perry.

Certainly is a lot different than where we lived the last 2 years!!!!!  Even 40 miles north of the city of Atlanta we were in horrific traffic.  I do miss the preserve by our apartment and the shops I could walk to---as well as the easy access to the mountains and lake Lanier, but I don't miss the constant traffic.