Georgia on My Mind

It's been a couple of days since our last Blog Entry, but in that time we've achieved quite a lot. We've covered around 1000 miles, and headed up through Georgia, and spent some time in Atlanta.

When we left Daytona, we knew we were in for maybe our longest drive of the entire trip. We started on our journey away from Florida - home of the orange - and up into Georgia - home of the peach. Leaving at around 10am, it was around seven and a half hours till we reached our hotel - The Doubletree - just North West of Atlanta. In that time we covered around 600 miles, and listened to numerous compliation CDs. But the funniest part was when Adam got into the hotel room and realised that he'd managed to miss a couple of bits on his forehead with the suntan lotion, and ended up with two rather silly red marks.












The hotel was a great place, with friendly staff - in particular Cameron on the bar, who kept us well stocked on Coronas the two nights we stayed there. They pointed us in the direction of a great steak house called Houston's just around the corner. When we arrived there we momentarilly thought we were the victims of a car-jacking - until we realised it was just the valet-parking! Anyway, we moved inside, and were greeted at the bar by a women serving Newcastle Brown Ale!!!! We were led to our table, and found that they had misspelled Adam's name on the booking, and called him Swine-house! The food in this place was out of this world - possibly one of the nicest steaks I've ever had was served to us, and we were rather pleased when the valet told us there is another one in Santa Monica. Something tells me we'll be heading there in a couple of weeks.

The next day, after being told to hop onto the number 10 bus to downtown Atlanta, we took the number 12 instead, and ended up seeing rather more of the city than we'd anticipated. Anyway, eventually we arrived at the Centenial Olympic Park (which was rather fantastic) and looked outside the three major tourist attractions in the area to dicipher which would be most accessible at short-notice. The World of Coca-Cola and the Aquarium (reportedly the largest in the world) were completely rammed, so we headed into the CNN building, which is unlike anything you would expect from a TV Headquarters (Phil - take note of the following). The lobby area filled full of food outlets and shops, and there was a hotel off to one side. It was bustling with people, but thankfully we were able to make it onto the tour of building. It was a brief 55 minute look at the world of CNN, but was pretty good value at $12 per head.












Anyway, after a couple of days in Georgia, it was time to head into our third State of the trip - Tenessee - which is one for Mr Swinhoe to tell you all about.

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Now playing: Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind
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