#71 HARD LABOR CREEK STATE PARK Hanging out with Aunt Blanche and Cousin Cathy in Covington GA

As we approached the Atlanta area the whole area was thick with smoke. There were big forest fires up near Pisgah in NC that were making the whole area including Atlanta hard to breathe.

We stayed at this little State Park just a little bit east of Covington which is a little east of Atlanta and we stayed here basically to visit my Aunt Blanche. She is in her early eighties and probably getting on in years a little bit more frail than she used to be but she was a big influence, a positive influence in my growing up years. We've always gotten along and I wanted to make sure we visited some. We always try to hang out with my cousin Kathy also who lives in one of the nearby houses. We basically just hung around hard labor state park for a couple of days and visited a little bit and then I kind of headed out