Back to Georgia

by Doctor Science

I'm back from our Thanksgivukkah trip to Georgia, to get together with my husband D's 3 siblings and their children (there are 2 each). We haven't been all gathered as a family since their mother passed away almost 10 years ago, so this was quite a big deal.

Though they grew up in the Atlanta suburbs, we didn't gather there -- we rented a couple of cottages on Tybee Island for the holiday. Our nuclear family flew into ATL on Tuesday, and back on Sunday; we rented a car and drove down to Tybee.

Neither D nor I had ever been to coastal Georgia before, and I'd only been as far south as Macon (D's late father's home town) once.

As I've said before, I love seeing how the landscape -- the forms of land, vegetation, and houses -- changes as you travel. The trip from Atlanta (in the Piedmont) through Macon (on the Fall Line) to Savannah and the Georgia coast is naturally parallel to the familiar trip from central New Jersey to the Jersey shore, but with many interesting differences.

ATL to Macon to Tybee, on bing.com aerial view with no labels. I find that if Google and Bing have the same level of magnification in their satellite maps, I usually prefer Bing. People who aren't familiar with this part of the US may wish to pull up a map for their own location at a similar magnification, to compare.