Walking Dead's Woodbury and Alexandria

While we were on the way to see A Couple of Covered Bridges South of Atlanta, Gretchen and I realized we were about to drive through The Walking Dead territory and with some side-of-the-road googling (I do not condone searching on your smart phone while driving) we found The Walking Dead Filming Locations Google Map.  This led us to take a quick diversion through Senoia where quite a bit of The Walking Dead (TWD) is filmed.  The downtown area is the set for Woodbury where The Governor ruled.

Just before jumping out of the car to take this picture, Gretchen said, "look... it is Rick!" and when I jumped out of the car I quickly realized it is a Rick lookalike running one of The Touring Dead outings.  I can't tell you how fast our emotions ran from excitement to sheer amusement!  I'm still chuckling when I think about it.  Here are few photos from The Walking Dead of the reworked Woodbury.

And while it was far away on the TWD timeline and theoretically in distance, the site for the fictional town of Alexandria is just a couple of block over where they still have the zombie-proof fencing up.

Here are some pictures from the show to compare/contrast with.

Being such a Walking Dead fan and with the proximity of all of these sets, I'm sure we'll make a future outing of seeing as many of them as we can.  That said, I doubt it will be as extensive as Edible Tapestry's Self-Guided TWD Filming Locations Tour which is a great read and full of fun photos.