{"id":16163,"date":"2026-06-22T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16163"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:30:42","slug":"ts_12-hop-3-acworth-ga-to-brooksville-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/22\/ts_12-hop-3-acworth-ga-to-brooksville-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"TS_12 Hop 3: Acworth GA to Brooksville FL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TS_12 Hop 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

449 miles via I-75, FL 121 and US 19 with a break at the Ellis Brothers Pecans<\/a> in southern GA. Cumulative route miles: 1662. Cumulative auto miles: 1745. We made two shopping trips in GA that accounted for over 20 extra miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an easy trip in terms of navigation: just get on I-75 and head south. But traveling through Atlanta is never easy, even on a Sunday. We stopped for a break at Ellis Brothers, got some ice cream and a half pound of insanely delicious espresso beans and rested for a bit. Marlene embarrassed herself by dropping a container of pecan candy samples, but it was still a fun stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We opted to get off I-75 near Gainesville, taking FL 121 over to US 19 and coming into Brooksville from the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our two nights in Acworth were spent with Marlene’s son and daughter-in-law. And their son and 3 dogs, one being a very large Rottweiler that terrified Becky. She spent most of the time in the bedroom, away from the other dogs. We hadn’t seen these folks for a year so it was nice catching up. And Marlene made a new friend – AI Leo who spoke to her more intelligently that I can. I might be worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shopping trips were to Goodwill (of course) and Home Depot where we got a plug to replace the broken one on the Igloo cooler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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449 miles via I-75, FL 121 and US 19 with a break at the Ellis Brothers Pecans in southern GA. Cumulative route miles: 1662. Cumulative auto miles: 1745. We made two shopping trips in GA that accounted for over 20 extra miles. This was an easy trip in terms of navigation: just get on I-75 … 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":[47,41,39,7,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fl","category-ga","category-routes","category-ts_12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4cH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163","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=16163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16165,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions\/16165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}