Amicalola Falls State Park & the Alaska String Band
Posted by: Dale in North Georgia Mountains, tags: alaska string band, amicalola falls state park, North Georgia Mountains
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Yesterday, I went to Amicalola Falls State Park, I didn’t camp there, I just dropped in for a day visit. I ate some food at their food bar in the lodge and went to see the Alaska String Band. I’ve been hanging around the old homelands, and will likely hang here until the Hellidays are over with, then I hope to hook up the Oyster Can of Adventure and ramble Florida some more.
Now the Alaska String band is this family of musicians from , of all places, Alaska, and they shared stories and songs from that area of the country. Now they do a variety of music, including old-time, folk, swing and other styles. I think the ones I enjoyed the most were the songs they did about the stories, histories and lands of Alaska. They all are talented with their instruments, but the Alaska tales brought in something different to this fella from the North Georgia Mountains who isn’t going to be impressed with just more bluegrass or gospel stuff (as those are done to death in my homelands). They are full time traveling musicians and you can check them out at http://www.alaskastringband.net/ . You might even book them for your church or hall if you are looking for something nice to feature to visitors.
I walked up the falls trail to check out the beauty and the lovely autumn leaves.
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Plus the trail is great exercise!
Amicalola Falls is a park between Dahlonega and Dawsonville Georgia and is the access to point to Springer mountain the start of the Appalachian Trail.
It features an incredible water falls, a lodge, many trails, scenic wonderments
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and fun stuff to do. The only thing I don’t like about the park is their campground, as for some reason, way back when, someone decided to put the campground half-way up the mountain and there is a 25% grade to pull an RV up. This grade would put my teeth on edge If I were in my pulling my Oyster Can with my Mule (the mule is nothing to write home about, its a Mule with no name because someday I’ll have to shoot it) . I hope to upgrade my tow-vehicle someday, as I’m not putting the mule and Oyster Can on the Blue-ridge parkway either. But I hate debt. Debt is one of the biggest detriments to the kind of freedom that I’m working to design, and the mule has managed many adventures so far and is paid for.
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November 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm - Edit
Hey Dale! I tried to greet you on the nurvers website, but I couldn’t get the site to stop crashing long enough to write something. iBlame the iPhone! Anyway, I hope you don’t get stuck in one place for too long; the road is calling you! Also, I’m pretty sure Kev is in Florida. I’m in the Carolinas now, but will also be hitting Florida soon (I think!). Maybe if you get down there we can all have a mini rally? Well, nice to meet a fellow traveler. Let me know if you and the mule make it south. Cheers!
November 24th, 2008 at 7:57 pm - Edit
Hi Eva, thanks for stopping by my site, Yes, I did sort of get stuck in one place for longer than I’d like. It can be a lovely place at times with all the nature-power, but I have kicked so many of the stones here in North Georgia. (Yes, I have a wee shack in North Georgia, it is mostly a glorified storage building trailer thing, I’m not a fan of it), but I traveled and played harder than I should this last spring, summer and early fall, I was slack on this blog though. (I need some more of your frugal boon-docking ways), and heck my Oyster-Can, due to my Rube Goldberg ways, does great self-contained for about a week or three), but alas, though I’ve boon docked plenty and have been to all but 6 states in my days, I do love some of those lovely and expensive / beach campgrounds (I’ve not found any boon docking ops on the beaches (where the cops won’t mess with me anyway). But alas, I do hope to get down to Florida to avoid the Georgia mountains-cold after the family Consumermas-hell is over with. A rally with some of the nurvers sounds like a good thing to me, but it also sounds like a target that is hard to hit right now at the same time (and with all the campsites eaten by other forward-planning sno-birds). Frankly with my income going up and down like a yo-yo and having spent too much savings I’ll have to play things a bit by ear right now. But alas don’t worry I have some new engines in the works (if not I’ll just build some, I can do that when I’m motivated); I will see how they do. I’ll keep an eye on your blogs and I hope you have some grand adventures in your travels.
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Dale