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Article: Coasting Through Georgia; Leave I-95 Behind to Explore the State's Back and Salt Marshes
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 11, 1994
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If you drive from Washington to Florida on I-95, chances are
you will have succumbed to Turnpike Trance by the time you cross
into Georgia. Eyes glazed over, you'll be focused on your journey's
goal in the Sunshine State. The hundred miles of Georgia interstate
you must traverse first will seem like just one more thing to get
beyond.
The pity of switching on the mental cruise control like this is
that as you whiz through coastal Georgia, you are in a region of
both stunning natural beauty and rich human history. If you only
exit the highway, it spreads out all around. You can taste it in an
hour's rest stop at a natural area or historic site, or simply by
taking a detour along a sandy ...