{"id":15020,"date":"2025-08-14T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=15020"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:52:55","slug":"ts_11-hop-4-athens-tn-to-savannah-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/ts_11-hop-4-athens-tn-to-savannah-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"TS_11 Hop 4: Athens TN to Savannah GA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TS_11 Hop 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

408 miles via TN 30, US 411, TN 314, US 74, TN 68, GA 5, US 76, GA 52, G 183, GA 136, GA 211, US 29, GA 15, GA 86, I-16 and GA 204. Auto miles: 408. Cumulative route miles: 1407. Cumulative auto miles: 1500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This route was even more complicated than this – I am sure I have forgotten some of the turns. I could have kept it simple by going through Atlanta, but who wants to go through Atlanta. I probably added over an hour of travel time by zig-zagging northeast of the city – and I didn’t completely miss the Atlanta congestion as we had some delays near Athens – but we did get to see some lovely countryside. We stopped for a few minutes in Blue Ridge GA and had a refueling stop along I-16 before we entered Savannah. We also stopped a few times to take pictures. Oh… and we had to stop for about 10 minutes in GA after I got pulled over by the GA state police for speeding (71 in a 55 zone). I got off with a warning. Marlene may have helped by mentioning that we were on our way to see her son who was an officer in Dekalb County GA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ocoee River in GA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Swallowtail butterfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ocoee rapids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene in Blue Ridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We actually were intending to see him in Savannah where he was getting some training. But the timing didn’t work out. Disappointing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One funny thing in Savannah… Marlene looked for a casino in Savannah and found one just a few blocks away. But when we drove there we found only a dark office building. On the side of the building, a sign: “Jaime Casino, attorney-at-law.” Finally, a casino where we didn’t lose money!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our one night in Athens TN was at the Baymont by Wyndham<\/a>. A good place for a one-night stay. No pool and few other amenities but the room was large and clean, as was the bath. The minifridge had a freezer and the cable TV had many channels. Inexpensive and no extra charge for Becky! The owner had a nice vegetable garden, too. But the breakfast was not very good. A breakfast sandwich, microwaved, and a banana. 6 out of 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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408 miles via TN 30, US 411, TN 314, US 74, TN 68, GA 5, US 76, GA 52, G 183, GA 136, GA 211, US 29, GA 15, GA 86, I-16 and GA 204. Auto miles: 408. Cumulative route miles: 1407. Cumulative auto miles: 1500. This route was even more complicated than this – … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,39,106,7,16,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-ga","category-hotels","category-routes","category-places-tn","category-ts_11"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3Ug","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15030,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions\/15030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}