Tuesday, October 16, 2007
We left Ohio on schedule ( no we don't have one) and made our way south on I -75 down part way through Kentucky. We have never taken this route so it was new to us. We saw more color in parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. Kentucky was hilly and green with trees so that we could not see the countryside. I saw one horse farm but I thought we would see a lot more. We spent the night south of Lexington in Brea. Then we continued on south on I-75 to Chattanooga, TN where we arrived yesterday in time for lunch at Sticky Fingers.
We had eaten in Sticky Fingers, a delicious barbecue restaurant only in the south, several years ago and we saw one as we entered the city. So we got settled and went and had ribs for lunch. They had a really good habenero sauce that we cannot buy in CA. Yummy. We drove around Chattanooga and downtown to the visitor's center after lunch. We decided we had better stay another night so we could enjoy the sights today.
As far as we know, we don't plan to return here. We drove past the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) building downtown. It was begun in 1933 by President Roosevelt. Those of us too young to remember can look it up on the internet. But it is still in existence and doing what it was designed to do.
One big surprise to us both was the lack of traffic. Very few cars on the freeway and downtown. We are just not accustomed to such a little amount of traffic. It was the same today.
We spent a great day here today. This morning we did our favorite activity and went to Panera Bread and had a latte and read the paper. We miss doing that when we travel. After that we went to the Aquarium. They have 2 large buildings and one houses an Ocean Journey and the other a River Journey. We say lots of fish, otters, turtles, sharks, alligators, beautiful blue macaw, largest parrot species in the world, and butterflies as well as many other aquarium wonders. It is not as large or complete as the one in Baltimore which is my very favorite, but it was very good and interesting.
Along with our aquarium ticket we got an IMAX ticket and went to see Deep Sea in 3-D. Was that ever good. All those fish and sea creatures swimming out right at us and even over us it seemed. What a day.
We saw a good portion of Chattanooga and it is a beautiful city. It is right on the Tennessee River and the north side of the river is very hilly and has some beautiful homes. On the south side it is more level and it is the downtown part where we spent today. It was fun to see and do all we did. I have a picture of the Chattanooga Choo Choo on top of the Holiday Inn. It's the only one we saw.
Ya"ll take care and thanks for writing. It will probably be a while before I write again. If we do anything exciting I will write.
Hugs to all,
Mom, Dad, Grandmother and Granddaddy, Ric and Jan(ice)
ric and jan
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