I was traveling up North, and one of my favorite places to stop along US 301 is the Georgia State Border Welcome Center, just South of the South Carolina border!
I have been stopping at this location for years, and it is fun to see pretty much the same faces at the station every time.
This time around it was a new face, but she was very knowledgeable and I even learned a couple of new things about the location, such as it now being the oldest welcome center in the country (she said the oldest was one in Florida near Yulee on US 17, but it has since closed down. However, I have now come to find that the oldest was in fact in Michigan on US 12 South of New Buffalo, back in 1935... also closed now.)
This welcome center with it's 1960's era futuristic construction and pleasant staff are worth a detour off of the main Interstate thoroughfares, if for no other reason than to grab a free cup of Coca-Cola! read more