Southern Travels - Part 1

On the morning of Oct. 5th we woke up, drove to the Minneapolis airport and made our way by plane to Atlanta, Georgia. It was an absolutely gorgeous day to fly, the weather was perfect! 

This was my first time flying, and it was a very enjoyable experience, I even got a window seat! :) 

Above the clouds

View overlooking Atlanta right before we landed.

We landed right on time and made our way to the rental car area, and got ourselves a snazzy Hyundai Elantra. 

We finally got out of the airport and started making our way north around 2:00pm.

We got to our hotel in Tocooa, GA around 6:00pm, drove around town for a little bit then just came back, settled in for the night and watched a movie.

The next morning we got up bright and early and went down the road to Toccoa Falls.

 The falls are located on a college campus, where a large flood happened back in 1977 and killed 39 people... Take a moment to read the brown sign pictured below for the full story.

We spent maybe around half an hour at the falls before we started making our way a little further north to Tallulah Gorge State Park. 

After walking around inside for a little bit, we started making the 3 mile loop hike around the gorge.

This was the softest walkway ever! I wish more places made paths out of tires!

This was a very strenuous trail indeed, we ended up hiking around 3,000 steps that day when it was all said and done. Our calves were definitely feeling it the next day :p

This was a swinging suspension bride, it hung across the full expanse of the gorge and moved too! It was a little freaky, yet also really cool at the same time.

Hurricane Falls

View of the suspension bridge from up above.

Some of the popular trees around the park

This was the view standing on top of the dam, that stretched under the highway above it.

It was a long, but very fun day! There was lots of history this park had to offer as well, some even went back as far as the civil war era. It was totally worth all those stairs and some sore legs ;) We left the park around 3:00 and started making our way to South Carolina... But I think this post has enough pictures, so I'll save the rest of what append that day for the next one ;)