October 3, 2014 Stone Mountain, Georgia to Statesboro, Georgia

Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans … that happened to us today! Yesterday, we bought tickets to the Stone Mountain Park and had planned to ride the Summit Skyride – a cable car that goes 825’ up to the top of Stone Mountain with a good view of the Confederate Memorial carvings. This is the same picture as yesterday and the view today with the rain and fog was not so good. I am glad I took a picture yesterday!

There is also a scenic 1940s railroad that goes around the mountain and an Antebellum plantation and farmyard, as well as several other attractions we had planned to see. Instead, we woke to clouds … then rain, then thunder and lightening, and lots more rain! We went ahead and drove over to the ticket booth where we had to exchange our voucher for actual tickets and they were kind enough to refund our money and $10 parking fee. The forecast was for rain for the rest of the day, and the girl at the ticket booth didn’t know if they would open or not. We were disappointed, but nature happens! You can see the rain rolling down the side of the mountain!

It rained off and on as we headed south, then around noon the rain pretty much stopped. Oh well, who knows what it was doing at Stone Mountain!

Tobey spotted a billboard that caught my eye, so we turned off the highway to check it out …. A Scarlet Thread Quilt Shop!
It was a great store with friendly staff, and I had fun picking out some fabrics and quilting tools. We had also seen a sign for La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant, so we Googled it and it had 4-1/2 star rating. The chips and salsa were pretty good, the wait staff was excellent, but the main courses were so-so. Another bummer!

It has been interesting to see the different billboards along the interstate. One restaurant was advertising they were the “home of the Allman burgers and Jimmy Carter milkshake!” Maybe we should have waited to eat there.

We checked out the Roadtripper app and found “The Big House, The Allman Brothers Museum” in Macon, so we decided to check it out. I’m not sure what I expected, but it certainly would not have been in such a beautiful, big, old house!


With our AARP discount, it was only $6 each to go in. The Big House was actually owned by the Allman Brothers and they lived and wrote music there. The original members of the Allman Brothers Band and their extended family called this home from early 1970 until January 1973. There were lots of concert promotional posters, photos, and artifacts from their early years.


It was amazing that some of their first concerts were only $1.50 up to $5.00 admission! Oh, if we could just turn back the clock to the 1960s or 1970s!

It continued to rain off and on ad we ended the day in Statesboro, Georgia. Hunger for one of our favorites took us to Papa John’s for Friday night pizza! Not fancy or adventurous, but that’s fine with us. The forecast for Savannah for tomorrow is partly cloudy, but dry and cooler. Should be a good day! Tobey has the Allman Brothers playing on the I-pod so life is good!