Storms holding off so headed north for Columbus which was a little off our track. We passed through the State line into Georgia on the way, so we are now, finally on East coast time. Columbus had a Space centre financed by Coca Cola Inc. which was very entertaining as it was really set up for kids. There was hardly anyone else there and when it was time for the movies, we were the only people in a huge movie theatre. It seems it is the quiet period in between the school trips and the summer camps.
Unfortunately we spent too much time there so there wasn’t much time to look around Atlanta, home of Martin Luther King and the place that was burnt to the ground by General Sherman in the American Civil war. Margaret Mitchell who wrote “Gone with the Wind” lived in Atlanta and they have made her house into a museum. Unfortunately it was a quarter to five when we arrived in Atlanta so we were a bit too late for most of the museums.
We decided we would visit Railway City, which is a novel redevelopment of the Inner city of Atlanta where a town has been built for railway commuters so that they can live close to the station and not have to travel there. A city within a city they say. It sounded interesting and appealed in that it was unlikely to shut at 5. We programmed the address into the GPS but every time we got close, a street was blocked off or we weren’t allowed to do a right or left turn. We circled round several times getting more and more frustrated, until David saw a solution, and we dived across the road. Unfortunately the solution involved driving on the left side of the road for a bit– not the side that they’re used to here. In his excitement, he’d forgotten that we’re not in the UK. Luckily the road had been momentarily clear, but there were many cars pawing the road at a nearby set of lights. You could almost hear the revs dropping and see the drivers heads raised in astonishment. But we reached our destination, so it was a good thing really.
After that, railway city was an anti-climax and didn’t look too different from the rest of the city. We could have been in the wrong part of course, but we spotted Ikea and being hot and thirsty, called in for a cool glass of Lingon juice and some Swedish meatballs. Just like home really.
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