We left Cedar Mountain, NC, around noon on the Friday after Thanksgiving, stuffed from a great potluck dinner at the Canteen and lots of good food with Paul and Susan. We arrived at Del and Vicky’s in Jefferson, GA, around 5PM, delighted with the slightly warmer temperatures and the delicious dinner in the oven. Our plan is to stay here for a week or more to visit Del and Vicky and my brother Pete and his family, catch up on some camper projects, and to be in one place long enough to get some mail. Since it was a nice day and Vicky was working, we decided that today we would take the hour drive into Atlanta to check that capitol off the list.
Atlanta traffic is horrible, and we were very glad Vicky had loaned us her car so we didn’t have to drive the camper in the heavy speed-up slow-down traffic on a very breezy day. However, getting to the Capitol off the expressway was easy, and parking was free on Sundays on the very quiet streets around the Capitol. In fact, the only people we even saw were the homeless people lining the sidewalks outside of the gated and locked fences surrounding the parks. Despite nicely landscaped parks and a pretty and well maintained Capitol building, this puts Atlanta near the bottom of our list since we haven’t seen this problem around any of the Capitols we’ve visited, and in a prosperous and cosmopolitan city, it seems pretty inexcusable to us.
Atlanta traffic is horrible, and we were very glad Vicky had loaned us her car so we didn’t have to drive the camper in the heavy speed-up slow-down traffic on a very breezy day. However, getting to the Capitol off the expressway was easy, and parking was free on Sundays on the very quiet streets around the Capitol. In fact, the only people we even saw were the homeless people lining the sidewalks outside of the gated and locked fences surrounding the parks. Despite nicely landscaped parks and a pretty and well maintained Capitol building, this puts Atlanta near the bottom of our list since we haven’t seen this problem around any of the Capitols we’ve visited, and in a prosperous and cosmopolitan city, it seems pretty inexcusable to us.
You can see the Capitol’s dome in the background. All those lumps along the sidewalk are people. They were all very polite as we walked by, and nobody even begged, which somehow made it even more depressing.
The Capitol itself, inside its deserted and gated compound, is quite pretty and well maintained. However, you need to look only just outside the gate to see that this city has some serious problems.
We don’t have any great plans for the rest of our time in Georgia, besides visiting great friends and family, but I’ll post another blog when we get moving again.