Post Tax Trippin' With Tom And Alison

Trapped for three and a half months, we finally got a chance to get away for a brief weekend trip.  The beach?  Nope!  The mountains?  Not quite.  The big City, like Jacksonville and Atlanta?  Nah, not really wanting to fight with traffic on our great getaway weekend.  Small North Georgia town sightseeing and shopping?  You betcha!

Alison prepares to browse a small town community yard sale we found in the quaint little town of Rutledge.

At the corner of Rutledge's little town park is this beautiful Gazebo.

This is in front of the Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia.  I am  with Luke Manders, the son of our good friends, Angela and Kevin Manders.  He started attended Georgia College there, and is a tour guide for the mansion.  We got an excellent private tour, the mansion being the residence of Georgia's Governor form the 1830s to just after the Civil War.  Luke is the taller, younger, better looking one.

This is Luke Manders with Alison.  We've known Luke since he was a wee one.  As you can see from the picture, that was quite awhile ago.

Even though you I failed to get pictures of it (Mr. "Huh? My phone has a camera in it?) we spent most of our time in Madison, Georgia.  It has some great antique shops and a beautifully renovated downtown.  Alison bought a couple of new items to add to our house, and I enjoyed finding whatever books I could to look at.  I also had a fully charged Kindle with me.

We did get out to see a movie Saturday, Oblivion, a science fiction movie with Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman.  It was pretty good, although slightly derivative.  It was great to get out to the movie theatre.

We ate at the same restaurant twice, Tequila Express, which was neither a bar nor a Mexican restaurant, but had a Mediterranean menu.  One of the times I had a Wild Mushroom Ravioli, which was the best vegetarian meal I've ever had.  Meals like that would make it easier to give up meat.

Now we are back at Glenwood.  Soon enough, the work world will force it's presence on us, but we will have the memories of this little outing, and the hope of more to come down the road.