The Hiking Adventures of Gadget & Goose

After we'd packed up the Camry on a Wednesday morning and were on the road headed to Vogel State Park, Gadget casually asked me, "What do you think this trip is for?". Glancing down at our hands intertwined over the middle console of the car, my ring finger might have twitched a little as the brief thought ran through my mind that maybe this was the trip I've been fantasizing about for years. Quickly dismissing that idea, I smiled and said, "To relax and have some time to ourselves, and enjoy nature", as that's the purpose for any vacation we take.  We rushed getting to the park to get our favorite walk-in campsite, Site Q. It's up a steep hill and pretty isolated from other campers, being at the end of the park and footsteps away from the Chattahoochee National Forest. A trail leads into the national forest and to a pretty stream encapsulated by large boulders, which makes for a beautiful picnic or napping spot, and is an added bonus to the b