Moving to Georgia

[Nomadic Pirate 66]

You probably know this but from a weather standpoint you want to get here as soon as possible. I live in South Carolina, one state north of Georgia, and we've already had a few days over 90 degrees F. Lots more are coming. It's pretty nice at the moment with cool mornings and highs in the 70s and 80s. But in a month it will be around 10 degrees warmer and it won't get back to the current level until October or so. In the summer mornings and evenings are generally OK but middle of the day it is just plain hot and humid. If you are tough enough you can shoot airguns outside year round. Hardly ever any frozen white water coming down. Wind is generally least early and late in the day. I need to go try a 30 yard challenge target.

Ok this is to actually answer a few other posts :

Moving to Augusta and the timeline looks like July/August but nothing set in stone yet,

Will ship my Bike to San Diego then go cross country I have a few routes planned but still not finalized, places to hit will be Reno, Bozman, Moab Vegas, Sedona, Telluride, Austin, Tennesee, Ashville and mostly will be off-road or back roads no Freeway for me,
Really looking forward to get on deer and squirrels.

 

[jkingrph]

Ok this is to actually answer a few other posts :

Moving to Augusta and the timeline looks like July/August but nothing set in stone yet,

Will ship my Bike to San Diego then go cross country I have a few routes planned but still not finalized, places to hit will be Reno, Bozman, Moab Vegas, Sedona, Telluride, Austin, Tennesee, Ashville and mostly will be off-road or back roads no Freeway for me,
Really looking forward to get on deer and squirrels.

Sounds like a long zig zag trip, Probably going to be well over 4000 miles, hope you have a comfortable ride..

 

[jkingrph]

You probably know this but from a weather standpoint you want to get here as soon as possible. I live in South Carolina, one state north of Georgia, and we've already had a few days over 90 degrees F. Lots more are coming. It's pretty nice at the moment with cool mornings and highs in the 70s and 80s. But in a month it will be around 10 degrees warmer and it won't get back to the current level until October or so. In the summer mornings and evenings are generally OK but middle of the day it is just plain hot and humid. If you are tough enough you can shoot airguns outside year round. Hardly ever any frozen white water coming down. Wind is generally least early and late in the day. I need to go try a 30 yard challenge target.

I don't know, my wife is from Ga. Met her while I was stationed in the USAF there, Robins AFB. We went to Turkey in the fall of 75, and few months later my mother in law sent pictures of a blizzard that hit Macon, over two feet of snow. Saw pictures from newspaper of semi trucks out on the interstate, hundreds of them stalled in deep snow. Ga a the largest state east of the Mississippi river has several different weather regions. deep south along Fla line is usually very warm all year, SE has a large swamp, then coastal islands, mid Ga all across the state is rolling hills, then there are the north Ga mountains, still hot in summer, but winters can be unpredictable there very cold and wet, snow and ice is not uncommon.

 

[beerthief]

Ok this is to actually answer a few other posts :

Moving to Augusta and the timeline looks like July/August but nothing set in stone yet,

Will ship my Bike to San Diego then go cross country I have a few routes planned but still not finalized, places to hit will be Reno, Bozman, Moab Vegas, Sedona, Telluride, Austin, Tennesee, Ashville and mostly will be off-road or back roads no Freeway for me,
Really looking forward to get on deer and squirrels.

I travel across those routes , Notice i said routes , plural . with the places mentioned you will have equal miles north and south as you will ride east to get to Augusta GA. example : San Diego to Reno is 568 miles almost straight north through Calif , Gas is over $4 Gal. if that matters

 

[Nomadic Pirate 66]

I travel across those routes , Notice i said routes , plural . with the places mentioned you will have equal miles north and south as you will ride east to get to Augusta GA. example : San Diego to Reno is 568 miles almost straight north through Calif , Gas is over $4 Gal. if that matters

Well my bike gets around 70 mpg ......crossed the US several times and always in straight lines, this time I want to hit several points of interest and use mainly dirt and backroads

 

[beerthief]

Well my bike gets around 70 mpg ......crossed the US several times and always in straight lines, this time I want to hit several points of interest and use mainly dirt and backroads

Cool ! The reason i pointed this out was i have a friend , Japanese, that visited . not realizing the north/south miles .
Have as much fun as you can on this trip of yours , ,watch out for Air gun / PB laws they are changing fast .

 

[DesertSilver]

Ok this is to actually answer a few other posts :

Moving to Augusta and the timeline looks like July/August but nothing set in stone yet,

Will ship my Bike to San Diego then go cross country I have a few routes planned but still not finalized, places to hit will be Reno, Bozman, Moab Vegas, Sedona, Telluride, Austin, Tennesee, Ashville and mostly will be off-road or back roads no Freeway for me,
Really looking forward to get on deer and squirrels.

Hey Manny, I hope you realize just how hot it is going to be in a lot of those places you're planning on going to. There will also be a chance of getting caught in a monsoon near Vegas and Moab. Mid July through September is monsoon season around here.

 

[Nomadic Pirate 66]

Hey Manny, I hope you realize just how hot it is going to be in a lot of those places you're planning on going to. There will also be a chance of getting caught in a monsoon near Vegas and Moab. Mid July through September is monsoon season around here.

Ho yeah, good thing I don't have a set route so I can change if and when needed, heat never bothers me.

 

[DesertSilver]

Make sure you have a lot of water. Humidity in the West is usually in the single digit to the teens.

 

[JimD]

If I were to move to Georgia I would much prefer Augusta to the more populated Atlanta. My daughter lived in Atlanta for a few years before she got married and I moved her 3 times I think while she was there. Atlanta traffic is brutal, expecially when you are in a small SUV pulling a 6x12 Uhaul trailer. But we survived. Augusta is a much smaller town and seems a LOT more managable. Still big enough to have decent shopping and services. I haven't spent a lot of time there but used to visit a customer south of town (the Vogtle power plant). Augusta is only about an hour away from where I am in Lexington, SC. It's right on the border of SC and GA. The Masters is a HUGE big deal in Augusta with some residents renting their houses out to pay for a vacation. Some even get hotel rooms in my area an hour away just because the demand exceeds the supply by a lot in Augusta.

Your route will let you see a pretty reasonable slice of the continental U. S.. Should be fun.

 

[Nomadic Pirate 66]

Cannot wait, the trip will be epic !

Thinking to actually get a place in North Augusta SC

 

[Ezana4CE]

@NomadicPirate Safe travels to you. Summertime, southern, cross-country drives are tough. Sounds like you’ve done it several times so you should have a very good idea of what to expect.

 

[john8]

Happy trails to you, be safe.