Little River Canyon, Alabama

Today we left Dalton and went south through some back country roads to the bottom of Little River Canyon in Alabama. I discovered this place a few years back and was wanting to get back and drive the whole route. It has some serious twisting curvy roads. When we first got on it I was sure I had made a mistake. The roads were so steep you almost needed 4 wheel drive to get up them, but it got better quickly and soon we only had sweeping........................

curvy roads.............. some

went down steep grades and other went up.......................

If you click on this picture you can see the road that follows the canyon. It is to the left of the river gorge. Quite an adventure.

The falls wasn't doing much today. I'm sure it is after a good hard rain.

This is the canyon below. The road you follow goes down on the left side and winds back to the right.

This was mushroom rock. They built the road around it.

Little River falls from a distance and then.....................

up close. There was a nice walk way to get closer to the falls.

This is the Tennessee River in Chattanooga from the Boathouse Restaurant where we had lunch

Great ending to a very gorgeous fall weekend get-a-way.

Georgia Mountains

Today we headed east to the Georgia Mountains. We followed twisty curvy roads and came upon Amicalola Falls. Of course we went the hardest way you could go. There were 425 steps down to get to this point of the falls and another 157 more steps to the bottom. (which we didn't do)

This picture was taken with my zoom lens. The sun was beautiful shining on the water.

And yes we were in for our workout for the day. 425 steps back up to the top. Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After leaving there we drove through more curvy roads before getting to Helen, GA. We have been here two other times, but it is such a cool town. All the buildings are built the same. They all have the German look to them.

This is Paul's restaurant which has the best Prime Rib I have ever had, but the main restaurant didn't open until 2:00 and we were ready to eat. The very back far left is all an open area that overlooks the creek. It is more of a sports bar, so that was were we ate.

These were some beautiful birds. This sweet looking one took a chunk out of my hand.

There she is acting all sweet and innocent.

This lady was holding this bird and said she was very shy and all of a sudden he jumped over to..

Buddy. He was a bit surpised and wasn't sure what to do. I think she liked him. :)

The flowers are just beautiful here. Not sure how much longer they will last.

After leaving there we took Hwy 60 back toward Dalton, and yes Buddy had some fun on the curvy roads. We passed several motorcycles at one of the sharp turns and one didn't quite make it. He was in the ditch and not moving. Sure hope he is okay. Several emergency vehicles were headed that way.

This was at an overlook at Fort Mountain.