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10/26/2020 at 16:02 • Filed to: Autumnlopnik, Alps, Road Trip, Autumn, Autumn Colors
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"Jb boin" (jb-boin)
10/26/2020 at 16:02 • Filed to: Autumnlopnik, Alps, Road Trip, Autumn, Autumn Colors | 5
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I did go to our vacation house near Gap (~2h drive) with my brothers last wed n esday , took some crappy photos :
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> Jb boin
10/26/2020 at 16:25 |
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Some beautiful scenery there. Dang, you’re really increasing my wanderlust over here. I was supposed to go on a big trip with my dad as my HS graduation present but then Rona shut that down. So now I get my kicks by wandering around Atlanta within walking distance of my dorm.
Except yesterday when I went to a corn maze and fall festival up in McDonou gh Georgia. The corn maze was surprisingly hard and later I waited far too long to ride in a barrel painted like a cow in a circle for a minute.
It was very pretty up there with the fall colors just starting to come in.
We haven’t had any true compact people carriers with sliding doors since the Mazda5 in the 2000s. The Ford C Max was like these with conventional doors but sold predictably poorly and scared off any other automakers from trying something like it. I like the blue on the Citroen Picasso.
Also, what is this a picture of? Is it an exposed rock face or some sort of quarry? Near me is the world’s largest piece of exposed granite, called Stone Mountain.
It’s also the site of a Confederate monument that people aren’t quite sure what to do with.
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Jb boin
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10/26/2020 at 16:46 |
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Didn’t think that the whole corn maze thing was really a thing outside of halloween movies, seems like you spent a funny day !
The 5008 (it’s a first gen, the newer one is more of a CUV looking car) and the C3 Picasso are the cars of my brother, the Megane being the car of another one.
The 5008 hasn’t got sliding doors unlike it’s predecessor the 806, i was about to say that it’s not especially compact but i just checked and it’s only 4.5m long which is almost the same length as my A4 B7 but with 2 additional seat !
The last photo is in fact a small quarry , there is a (blurry) digger in the middle of it but it’s not granite as this is at the end of the Devoluy mountain range which is part of the pre-Alps tectonic plate which is not granitic (contrary to the Alps which is).
Your granite mountain seems gorgeous, we don’t have such things in here.
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10/26/2020 at 17:24 |
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Oh, corn mazes are very much a thing. I don’t do them all that often but they’re fun. Pretty common just about anywhere there is corn as it is an easy way for farmers to make some money off of suburbanites who want a fun fall activity. Usually accompanied by fall festival type stuff like hay rides ( no hay this year because virus so more like hard wooden bench in a trailer rides) and carnival style sideshow stuff. This place also had an air cannon where you could launch ears of corn at targets but I didn’t do that.
Sometimes tall cars can appear much larger than their footprint would suggest. Though I definitely would have expected it to be much larger than an A4.
Neat. But why dig into a random mountain? What are they mining for? There are a few quarries around here as the area is known for its granite. Lots of old houses have granite fireplaces and other stone trim pieces mined from below Stone Mountain. It is unlike anything else you’ve seen but the fact that it is owned by an amusement park is kind of a bummer. You can’t just pay to hike up it. There is a cable car to the top but just wandering along the granite along the top is otherworldly. It’s so big you can easily get away from the tourists.
Still, you can only see the same light show set to the tune of The Devil Went Down to Georgia so many times and the rest of the attractions are somewhat gimmicky.
There really isn’t anything like it anywhere else. Lots of mountains in the region have large patches of exposed granite that you can walk all along (and are as such free of trees so they make perfect scenic picnic locations with a view) but nothing that just juts up free of more conventional topography.
This area is too far south to be in range of the foothills of the Appalachian mountain range but you get an interesting mix of geography. Mostly isolated small mountains with rolling hills in between (nothing like your soaring Alpine peaks!) and the occasional creek or river. No lakes other than where people have dammed a river. You also get Georgia’s famous red clay (visible somewhat in the corn maze photos).
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10/26/2020 at 17:53 |
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The quarry seems to be s imply for sand and gravel, nothing fancy :)
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10/26/2020 at 18:09 |
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Just seems like an odd place for it, having to deal with erosion from the mountain on one side which limits the depth they can mine. There also appears to be a lot of water at the bottom of the deepest part.
Are there any typical autumnal activities you do? Around here most people attend some sort of fall festival that has things like the corn maze and then Halloween is very big. Lots of parties and activities around that time like pumpin carving/painting.
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10/26/2020 at 19:59 |
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I can’t think of any specific activity in autumn , mushroom picking or things like that :)
Halloween is imported from the US in here, kids knocking to have candies only started a few years ago and it doesn’t get much further than that.
Usually around mid october in the village i grew up there is an apples fair but it’s mainly for old peoples and kids :
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10/27/2020 at 00:43 |
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That looks, well, quaint. Kind of a very folksy small town vibe it seems. Apples are fine I guess but you pick them and you eat them.
The town square in my quite large hometown of Marietta is famous for its seasonal festivals. There are art and culture festivals where they close the streets and vendors set up tents t sell stuff They do the same thing for food fairs and just about anything else really. Usually a small section devoted to cars that varies depending on how many vendors they have. It’s quite fun and I am within walking distance of it so I’ll usually go over with my family after church on Sunday if there’s something going on. And lots of activities for the kids.
Mushroom picking, do you have to bring your own pig to hunt truffles? That seems kinda hard actually.
I didn’t know Halloween had gained any ground overseas. It’s a blast as a kid but in quieter neighborhoods it’s less fun with less people to tric k or treat you. I’ll be attending a Halloween party with some HS friends so that’ll be fun.