Day 129 (April 23, 2016)

Incline Railway tracks

Yep, we have been gone from home 129 days now.  We are now in Chattanooga TN.  Today the humans took a ride on the incline railway and drove up Lookout Mountain (and back down again) then on to check out the downtown.  Tomorrow they are going to the aquarium. (I'd like to tag along with them----I'd love to check out some of the yummy fish).

Before we got here, we spent a couple days at a Georgia Power Campground in Greensboro on the 220 mile long Oconee Lake.  We went there because Ron wanted to eat at the Varsity, an iconic Atlanta restaurant.  They ate at the one in Athens GA.  On the way back to the Campground they took a couple side trips and found the Elders Mill Covered Bridge, built in 1897 it is one of the few covered bridges in Georgia that is still used without any steel support beams underneath.  Next they found  historic Scull Shoals Mill Village in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. It was home to Georgia’s First Paper Mill, Water-Powered Sawmill, Grist Mill, and Textile Mills

Oldest house in Savannah

St John the Baptist

Neat Downspout

My last post was written when we in Savannah.  The day after I last posted, R&N went into Savannah and rode the trolley and got off and checked out things that interested them.  They actually went around the look three times!  They stopped at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.  A beautiful Catholic church built in 1898 after a fire destroyed the origianally built in the late 1700s.  They drove past a house with unusal downspouts and another that was build out of iron where most houses have wood. (like the window frames).  The town was laid out in squares and each had a history and lots of beautiful architure.   Way too much info to share with you here.

Waving Girl in Savanah Harbour