Providence State Park, GA

After we got the tires in Panama City, we headed into Dothan, AL, and from there to Hardgrove Campground, a park operated by the Army Corps of Engineers on the Chattahoochee River.  We were about 10 miles from Abbeville, and just across the GA state line.  The campsite was right on one of the lakes created by the dam.  It was very windy on Wednesday, but thankfully, none of the tornadoes that ravaged the south headed our way.  On Thursday, we drove into Georgia to Providence State Park, known as having "the Little Grand Canyon".  It was a disappointment inasmuch as the canyon was not very visible.  We took a trail to the bottom, but when we got there, we still couldn't see the canyon walls.  The trail was very steep, so we decided to head back the way we had come.  The best views of the canyon that we could get were from a picnic area.  The canyon was formed by poor agricultural methods in the 1800's. There was not much else to see in the park.  When we left there, we drove into Lumpkin, which was like a ghost town.  The towns along the way were about 20 miles apart, and there was very little thriving in any of them.