The Georgia Traverse Part 1 - Exploring North Georgia - Jeeps Overlanding - Presented by Novsight

The Georgia Traverse series is brought to you by NovSight. NovSight. Adventure is calling. When you get the opportunity to explore somewhere that you've always wanted to go, you don't pass it up. This is one of those occasions. I invite you to join me as I explore the Georgia Traverse. Making my way down to Interstate 85 in South Carolina on a Friday afternoon on Memorial Day weekend is not a lot of fun, but we're on our way to Georgia to meet up with Matt from Simply Must Go and Overland Dads and we are going to run the Georgia Traverse. I'm finally able to maintain a steady 55 miles per hour, which is the best I've done all day, so wish me luck that I'm able to get there. I made it to the meetup spot. We've rendezvoused with Matt from Simply Must Go and the crew from Overland Dads Florida. Met up at Bucky's, refueled the rigs, refueled ourselves, and now we are northbound on I-75 headed towards the turnoff to meet up with the Georgia Traverse. We're off of I-75 and we're officially on the Georgia Traverse, although this is one of the segments that's paved that connects the trails. There's not much to look at right now. We'll be off-road. The Georgia Traverse is a trail system that crosses the state of Georgia from the Alabama border in the west to the South Carolina border in the east. It covers 390 miles with 226 of that being off-pavement driving. The Georgia Traverse is extremely popular with overlanders and off-road enthusiasts as it offers a unique opportunity to explore the wilderness of northern Georgia. Finally made it off pavement. Matt from Simply Must Go is on point. He's got a campsite that he's taking us to that hopefully we can all fit into. This is going to be interesting. I've never shot a video with seven rigs before, so we're gonna see how this comes out. It should be interesting though, but anyway, like I said, we're gonna make our way to camp and then I think Matt and I are gonna break off and we're gonna try to get some nighttime footage. Being that it's Labor Day weekend and we got kind of a late start, we're having a little bit of a time finding a campsite. I talked with one of the U.S. park rangers and he gave us some intel on some possible locations, so now we're trying to figure out if there's any spots open or not, so such is life. But in the meantime, we have this wonderful view out here to look at. Take a look at this. Need a better view? After taking in an epic mountain sunset, it was time to get the convoy moving and make our way to camp. With everyone finally in camp, I decided to fire up my NovSight lighting and head back out to have a little fun in the dark. If you're wondering what that bright light is, that would be the camp light supplied by NovSight. You know if I have lighting, it's gonna be NovSight. Back up here, you can see it is producing no shortage of light. NovSight was nice enough to send it to me and it's working out really well. It is super bright. It has two settings too. We don't like white light. I don't know if we can make it off white light. And, of course, I'm going to be sleeping in my NovSight Zebra Series tent, which I have several nights in now, and I'm happy to say it is the bee's knees. See what Chef Matt is whipping up. Chef Matt also has the mood lighting for the campsite. We have red mood lighting to match his red Jeep. Matt, what's on your menu tonight? Tonight we have Terrace Major steaks. Really awesome cut of meat. If you're not familiar with Terrace Major, ask your local butcher about it. And then we've got some asparagus. And as always, we wash it down with a Diet Dr. Pepper. Very nice. Very nice. We spent the rest of the evening around the fire reflecting on the long day of travel that we had all just endured. It's getting late. Everybody's in their tents. Everybody's going to bed. I'm in my NovSight Zebra Series tent. This tent is amazing, and it is supposed to rain tonight. I'm really thankful for the waterproofing on this tent. So when I start hearing the water helting on the tent, I'll know that I'm going to stay dry tonight. This is an amazing tent. As I said earlier, I have several nights in it now. I'm really grateful that they sent it to me. It's an outstanding tent. It's very well made. I'm going to stop talking about it for now, and I'm going to sleep in it. So see you in the morning. Good night. It's a little after 7 a.m., and I don't know if you hear that or not, but we are about to get shellacked by an early morning thunderstorm. It's raining pretty good, and it thundered quite a bit. We're definitely about to test out the limits of this tent. This is going to be interesting. The line of storms that were headed our way kind of broke, so we didn't get any severe weather, but it rained pretty heavy. The weather radar shows that there might be some more rolling through in about 20 or 25 minutes, so we'll see. It's not often you get to test your gear to its limits, but it rained pretty heavy, and the tent stayed dry. So I call that a very successful field test, but we'll see what the rest of the morning has in stock because there might be more coming. Well, the weather is looking ominous. Bad stuff hasn't rolled through yet, but it looks like it's going to shortly. I was going to weather it in the tent, just take cover, but Matt had the wise suggestion. It might be better to break your tent down while the weather still allows it. It's better to do it now than in pouring rain. I said, Matt, you're a wise man. So we broke our tents down, and when this rolls through, we're just going to take shelter in our vehicles. Some of the other guys in the group, their tents are still up. They're going to hunker down in their tents, and we will wait out this line of storms and then get back on the Georgia Traverse. For finding it after dark and getting in late, this campsite turned out to be pretty good. It's not anything hidden or off the beaten path. It's the Lake Conasalga. Did I say that right? If I didn't say that right, leave me a comment and correct me. The Lake Conasalga overflow camping area turned out to be pretty good. It has some restrooms on site, so any morning that you don't have to poop in the Walmart camp tent is a good morning. I did go ahead and waypoint it, though. I'll post the coordinates on my Patreon, but again, it's not a hard campsite to find. Just look for the overflow campground for Lake Conasalga, and that's where we were last night. It turned out really well. I think we're going to hang around a little longer. People are having their morning coffee, having their breakfast, and then we're going to wait on the storm to roll through. I think we're going to get back on the Traverse, which we're running west to east, so is that the Georgia Traverse in reverse? Maybe that'll be the title of the video. The Traverse in reverse. The weather finally reached us. It's starting to storm, so I'm inside the divide. Everybody else has pretty much gotten under their awnings or jumped inside their vehicles, and we're going to wait on this to pass, and then we're going to get moving. That's lovely. It's starting to hail. It's pretty small hail, though, so I don't think it's going to damage anything, but it is coming down pretty good outside. As we weathered the passing storm, we prepared ourselves for the day's journey and wondered what that journey would bring, and it would definitely bring some surprises, so tune in for part two of the Georgia Traverse.