The River Road Run With SCCB Rider

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Ken, SCCBrider, contacted me a few days ago about getting together for a ride on the River Road that I posted about late last year. http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7102

Meeting at my home in Pierce County this Wednesday morning, we set out north on GA121 for the Altamaha River and some lovely riding on lightly traveled roads that follow the gentle hills that parallel the rivers broad flood plain.

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The GA121 bridge and the Altamaha

Just past the river we turn west on GA178 and then left on the Old River Road. Very few homes on this road, just miles of pine woods, oak hammocks and creeks that flow to the river. An old antebellum home commands a particularly beautiful spot on the road front. Aging barns and outbuildings face the old house from the far roadside. An old car, early 50's I think rusts away in a barn.

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We leave the old place behind and head west again, turning left on GA147 to our next stop, an abandoned farmhouse that I featured in my original post. This is a place covered with old Live Oaks as most of this part of the south was before the Civil War and the advent of fast growing pine tree plantations. Ken had expressed a keen interest in seeing this old setting out of another time.

The 2013 CB's are such camera hogs.

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Part 2 following
Part 2

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Leaving here, we continue west, crossing US1 and continuing on River Road. We pass farms that overlook fields full of Vidalia onions and the aroma of their ripening bulbs is as thick as the pine pollen that coats everything. Still headed west, US221 is crossed and we begin Bell's Ferry Road and the bridges that cross the Oconee River, an Altamaha feeder.

Just up the road is Lumber City and Stinson's Bar-B-Q for a late lunch.

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After some pulled pork sandwiches, time to head back east, now on the south side of the river and headed to Hazlehurst on US341.

In Hazlehurst we turn left on Altamaha Road to enjoy some nice "twisties", well twisties for south Georgia anyway. Crossing US1 again and continuing on Lenox Road, Ten Mile Road and on to Lane's Bridge Road. We reach GA121 again and ride south toward Patterson. Last photo stop before reaching my place is a farm with an old gas pump.

What, no gas?

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A few more miles and we're back. About 170 miles done. Pot roast in the crock pot for supper. It was a fantastic ride. Let's do another ride soon Ken.