Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Summer 2012 - Chinese - (Page 66)
FA M I LY T R AV E L
FLYING HIGH Clockwise from top left: Father and daughter at play in Lake Oconee; Dahlia earns her wings; friendly wildlife is among the attractions.
AMERICAN IDYLL
IN T HE W I LDS O F G EO R G I A, LAUREN S AN DLER FI N DS C R EATUR E CO MFO RT S FO R ALL T HE FAM I LY
PHOTO G RA P HS BY JUSTIN L A NE
Horse farms and hay bales line the Greene County Veterans Memorial Highway. Sure, we could take Interstate 20 from Atlanta, but this route feels more appropriate to The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation — old barns and tiny white churches dotting the landscape, an occasional rusty pickup truck, the porches of one antebellum town after another. Winding past the porticoed homes of Madison and over the placid expanse of Lake Oconee, I think, this is the Georgia that Ray Charles had on his mind. We hang a left off the highway and there, just past the 11th tee of one of the world’s most
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