Highway 41, Lake City and beyond (but not to Georgia quite yet)

Next stop - LAKE CITY!

You might wonder why Lake City is so exciting. Well, if you're driving up Interstate 75 - and this becomes very important now, because Highway 41 and I-75 start to parallel each other pretty closely north of Lake City - this town is one of the last places to get off the interstate before Georgia.

However, there is not actually a lot in Lake City, tourism-wise. We're staying on Highway 41, not 441 through Lake City.

Which is why this next location caught my eye.

Chinese Restaurant - not kidding.  I'm not sure if it's great or not.  (Zoom in to see the name.  Yes, it is moderately famous.)



However, there are a couple more notable places (depending on your definition of notable) up Highway 41 before we get to Georgia.

Intersection with Interstate 10, Gateway to the Panhandle of Florida, Texas, and Los Angeles.  And Jacksonville.



Crossing the Suwannee River, just south of White Springs



The Stephen Foster Culture Center State Park includes the Stephen Foster Antebellum Museum, shown here ready for Christmas.


(For some reason, Highway 41 is also called Highway 100 in this stretch.)


By a gypsum mound.  Gypsum is a phosphate mining by-product.  The most mounds from phosphate mining are in Polk County, but obviously there are some others.



Almost to Georgia. Hang in there!