6-22-18 to Knoxville

Now that the stress of buying the house was done, it was time to hit the road towards St. Louis.  By way of Knoxville.  And by way of Lane's Farm for breakfast!
Love all the crepe myrtles blooming all over the place---like here at the entrance to Lane's restaurant and gift shop.

about a forth of the store.

some of the peaches that I bought.

my senior $2.49 breakfast!

When we were done with breakfast, we thought we knew of a way to get around Atlanta by way of back routes.  Turned out to be a pretty drive, but we didn't miss Atlanta!  We did see signs like this, though.  I guess if we had taken a different road we might have avoided Atlanta.

Another thing that reminds me of Oregon---log trucks.  We see quite a few of them in middle Georgia.

Also love all the mimosa trees that are in bloom.  I think their flowering season is just about over.

Lots of farmlands, too.  What's not to love about them?!

Even a Christmas tree farm!!!!  Maybe we are in Oregon?!

Nope, now we're in Forsyth, Ga.

Apparently it's another historic old town.   The Forsyth Commercial Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a tourist attraction. It includes the Monroe County Courthouse and Courthouse Square as well as the surrounding area, including several examples of 19th-century architecture. Forsyth is also home to the Confederate Cemetery, Tift College and Rum Creek Wildlife Management Area

From there we got back onto I-75.  Our hour or so detour was done.

Wasn't too long 'til we could see Atlanta looming in the distance.

Even as much traffic as there was, we went straight through the city.  Turned out to be pretty fast!

One of the decorated areas along 75 in Atlanta.

NW of Atlanta.  This is the kind of traffic we put up with on the NE side for the last 2 years.  I don't miss the traffic.

It wasn't until after we got out of Atlanta and closer to Chattanooga that we hit major slow downs.  But we eventually made it to Knoxville.  Faith wasn't there this weekend, but we decided to spend the weekend visiting Tim anyway.  Even went for pizza that night.  I liked it.  I think Tim liked it.  But Ken said he wouldn't go back because they didn't have straws.

Lots of cloud cover, but we got a tiny bit of a sunset.

We had thought of going straight to St. Louis since we had to be back in Perry on the 1st, but I'm glad we stopped in Knoxville.  Hopefully Tim is, too.