Tourists abroad in Georgia

Now that we have sorted the A?C for the Trailer Sally and I have slowed down the pace a bit. From Lake Juliette we travelled only 50 miles to Madison, then another 80 miles to Lake Hartnell State Park in South Carolina.
About 20 miles north of Lake Juliette we passed through a small town called Monticello, quite unremarkable, except as we drove in to the town the road came into the corner of the town square. It was uncanny, the town square looked exactly like the 50’s version of the town square in Back To The Future!!!, with the little hedge going round the gardens in the middle of the square, café on the corner opposite the town hall, which had columns and a town hall clock. We were there in Hill Valley Town Square. Unfortunately my camera was still set on manual exposure from taking pics the previous night and the picuter I took while driving, was hopelessly overexposed.
We arrived at the Country Boys RV park in plenty of time for lunch. We then set out to explore Madison.
Madison is famous as the town that Sherman didn’t burn down in his march to the sea.
The town is very proud that it has a number of houses which predate the Civil War. They have produced a walking tour which highlights many of the older and finer houses. We had a very pleasant afternoon wandering round gawping at these houses, the oldest of which dates from 1811. We have put some of the pictures on a slide show

Saturday
Moving On
We decided that we liked The Country Boys RV Park so much we would move on that morning. We managed to get away really early, only to ‘pop into Wal-Mart for a few things’ One hour and $100 later we left Madison and drove north.
We planned to pass through the sleepy town of Athens. However not realising the following:
1. It was Saturday
2. That Georgia University is in Athens
3. That the Georgia Bulls were playing at home
4. That the Georgia Bulls are the Georgia University Football Team and that playing a home game meant that about 60,000 people turn up at just bout the time we were passing through.
Fortunately we went on the bypass, but every road we crossed over was at a standstill and traffic on our road was very heavy. We still have not got to a football game.
We arrived at Hartnell Lake State Park in plenty of time to set up and relax. We have another site which looks out over the lake. The air is cooler and dryer here. We could sit out and feel pleasantly warm. We had a lovely evening playing and singing together round a campfire. Sally playing her Dobro and me singing and playing guitar. We sang for about 2 hours, without Sally getting impatient at me once (truly).