Riding the River Road

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After days of fog and mist this morning started with clear skies and cool temperatures, just right for a ride on the River Road.

The Altamaha River starts at the confluence of the Okmulgee and Oconee rivers near Lumber City, GA and empties into the Atlantic near Darien. Our route takes us north through Odum where we find a giant Minion guarding a pasture.





We stop on the Hwy 121 bridge that spans the Altamaha. The River Road starts just north of the river valley and we will follow it to Lumber City.





Once on the River Road you notice that you cannot see the river. That's because of the wide, forested flood plain. A fine road all the same with plenty of sweeping curves and rolling hills.

Pamela and I stop for a roadside lunch at an old Methodist church.





North of Baxley we find this old farmhouse, shaded by an enormous Live Oak and long ago abandoned.









From here we soon cross US1, following the river west and cross US221 on the way to the River Road bridge crossing the Oconee River.





It's a short ride from the Oconee into Lumber City where we turn east on US341, cross the Okmulgee River and head for home. It was a beautiful ride with perfect weather, about 160 mies total.