leaving Florida

I drove north from Sanford towards St Augustine.
My plan was to stop and saint Augustine to see the Fort. When I get to town? I found that there was no place to park that was free so, I decided I didn't really need to see the fort.
My next stop was supposed to be Savannah, Georgia. But when I got to Savannah and I looked at Google to see what the local attractions were. I wasn't attracted to them so I decided to continue driving.

The end of the day I was in Augusta, Georgia when I got to Augusta. I used the charge finder app to find a charger in town and I saw that there were some on The Other Side of town from where I entered the city.
I drove to an old mill which had been made into a shopping center park. Short of thing there were free chargers there. I plugged the car in. I used the restroom.
Then I went for a walk looking for a place to eat.
Across the canal which serve the mill and doll to the right? I found a cafeteria where I had fried fish and it was good. And after that, you left the cafeteria and found a hotel.  Nearby at Red Roof Inn where I booked the room for the night. I was going to walk back to the car. But it started to rain period so I went back into the room and I watch TV for 3 hours. And then I walked back to the car and plugged the car and go back to the hotel and went to sleep.
In the morning I set my goal to Cummings GA.
I told Google to route me around Atlanta. The route I drove was through the mountains around Atlanta.
As I was driving towards the Buford dam. I saw a sign. Or a lookout so I stopped to look out.
 The look out was for the Lake lanier.
I cross over the Buford dam. So I took a picture of this sign to send to Ron Buford.
I arrived at Jeff's house a few minutes later. TO find him clearing brush from a storm. They had the previous evening.

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