Travel

We have made two trips to North Georgia since we moved here. The first time was for our anniversary. The second time was for Heber's birthday. We stayed in a cabin in Sautee Nacochee, which is not for from Helen, Georgia. I always get a little anxious when we go to a tourist town that has restaurants. The first time we went, we tried to go to a restaurant in Helen. There were no dogs allowed posted all over the restaurant walls. I think they wanted people to keep their pets off the property. But since Gunter is a service dog, we ordered our food and stayed on the patio. Young people were floating down the river on large green and pink innertubes, laughing and joking with one another. It was quite a sight. We ate our turkey sandwiches and returned to our sight seeing and hiking. On that first trip, we visited Anna Ruby Falls, which is part of the Chatahoochee National Forest. We asked the gateman if we could get national park service lifetime passes, but he said they were only available at other National Forest locations. So when we returned to the Atlanta Metro area we stopped at the Island Ford Chatahoochee River National Preserve and were able to get lifetime passes. The Anna Ruby Falls hike was one for the record books for me. I get altitude sickness when I get too high in the sky and thus half way through the hike, I sat on my stool that doubles as a hiking stick and rested for a while. The hike was worth it. If we didn't do anything else on that trip, Anna Ruby Falls was worth it.