Today, near downtown Atlanta, we visited the MLK National Historic Site. In addition to a nice visitor’s center, we visited the church where his father was pastor, his birthplace and childhood home, and his tomb. He is entombed with his wife in a magnificent memorial. It was a nice stop.
We then took a drive around downtown Atlanta before heading north. We got to see the State capital before we left. 
We really didn’t have any plans except to get to Chattanooga. We decided to make a stop at the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History which was about 30 minutes outside Atlanta, not too far off the highway. It was small but had good displays. We wouldn’t recommend it but we aren’t sorry we stopped. It gave us a look at another small town in Georgia.
A few miles up the highway we decided to make another stop which turned out to be very cool, the Etowah Indian Mounds; it’s the most intact Mississippian (a mound-building Native American civilization archeologists date from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE) cultural site in the Southeastern U.S.
We then took a drive around downtown Atlanta before heading north. We got to see the State capital before we left.
We really didn’t have any plans except to get to Chattanooga. We decided to make a stop at the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History which was about 30 minutes outside Atlanta, not too far off the highway. It was small but had good displays. We wouldn’t recommend it but we aren’t sorry we stopped. It gave us a look at another small town in Georgia.
A few miles up the highway we decided to make another stop which turned out to be very cool, the Etowah Indian Mounds; it’s the most intact Mississippian (a mound-building Native American civilization archeologists date from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE) cultural site in the Southeastern U.S.
We got into Chattanooga at about 4 o’clock, which gave us a little time to relax in our room before going out for dinner. After much searching on the internet we decided to have dinner at a place called Champy’s; it’s a no frills, inexpensive restaurant with a bar-type atmosphere. Their specialty and only main dish is fried chicken, and of course they have the regular southern sides, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw. We added fried pickle spears, just because we’re in Tennessee. The fried chicken was amazing!
So far we like Tennessee.
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