Last weekend Teresa and I decided not to go to the Alabama homecoming game in Tuscaloosa so we could go camping one more time in our little pop-up camper. We headed up to northwest Georgia this time, right at the point where Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia all meet. The state park this time was Cloudland Canyon State Park, and wow, it was a beautiful place, elevation 2,000 feet.
We arrived Friday afternoon and set up shop on the west rim camp ground. Since it is not the 'peak' camping season we were able to get a pretty good camp site. The weather was perfect, lower 40's at night, near 70 or so during the day, lot's of sunshine.
We had a great time, the trees were in full color mode Saturday and Sunday. While we were hiking the canyon trails they were just stunning in their colors of red, orange and yellow. The hiking trails were very nice, a little challenging and the views of the canyon were impressive. Each time we go to a Georgia state park we are more impressed with the beauty of this state.
We left the camp site Saturday to drive around, head into Chattanooga to watch the Bama game at a local sports bar and to look at bigger campers at a huge Camping World store in town. Since we enjoy camping so much and the little pop-up, while nice, is just too darn small for us now, we have been considering upgrading almost since the first time we used the pop-up.
We looked at a ton of pull behind trailers and spent several hours there mulling over a few. We really liked a couple of them and the prices, in today's economic environment, are incredibly low. We left and headed back to our little camper for the evening. Sunday we hiked a little and decided to head back to Camping World...... and we decided to take the plunge.
We bought us a little 19ft Jay Feather camper that can easily be pulled by our SUV but is big enough (fridge, full shower, stove, oven, microwave, couch, TV. We really do want to 'rough it' when
camping, huh??
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