March
We’re headed back to Maine, slowly by surely. Hills, farm fields, small towns, rivers, and mountianss. Quite the change from 3 months on the very flat Gulf Coast! Wild flowers are starting to bloom, trees are budded out, some almost leafed out. The weather is cool, but clear and dry. Very little boondock camping in the east so State Parks are our future.

FD Roosevelt State Park, GA- an amazing place.

This area is where FDR came for the spring waters and started a treatment center for people with polio. Pine Mountain is a 20+ mile ridge- great views now, but once the leaves are out, not so much.
We “sprung ahead” last weekend, and this week we moved into the very western side of the Eastern Time Zone with Daylight Savings Time- WOW! Sunrise today was at 7:47am- so hard to get moving in the morning, however sunset was at 7:45pm- almost 12 hours of daylight. Moving in, out and across time zones, as well as north to south, and through the seasons, has been fascinating for both of us to watch sunrise/sunset times change and the length of daylight change.
Fort Mountain State Park, Georgia- first time we have been in elevation – 2500ft.- since last December! This campground is partway up a mountain in the foothills of the Applachians. The sites are terraced around a small lake. There is great history here- the CCC built much of this park, including a stone firetower at the top of the mountain.

Along the south perimeter of the peak there is a 855 ft long stone wall, 6 feet high and about 4 ft wide which was built about 450ad,

and no one knows exactly why- it does not appear to be for defensive, or a fence or even ceremonial…there are several similar ones within this region…history mystery!