On the road. A.H. Stephens Historic State Park

Our morning view at A.H. Stephens Historic State Park, in Crawfordville, GA

While we stayed only one night here, on our way to the north Georgia mountains, we would go back. It was easy to get to, and we had the perfect first night on the road at this beautiful, well-kept campground east of Atlanta. We stayed in site 8.

We had hot dogs and burgers from the grill, roasted marshmallows, and sat by the fire. We felt the excitement of our first night camping as a family...finally our hard work was starting to pay off.

On our way to the campground, we stopped at our first backwoods country grocery store. It was fully stocked with everything some people might want, but it was far from what we were used to in northern Virginia or Florida. The most memorable item we bought was frozen country peas. When we ate them days later, the boys all went back for seconds and third of beans.