Back to Atlanta for the day ....

A year ago yesterday I took possession of my new home.  It's been a great year!  It sure doesn't feel like a year already ....

Note to self for today - When the temp is 33 degrees with a 25 mph breeze and you are going to stand outside looking at a wall of granite .... blow your hair dry after you wash it, before you leave the coach!  It wasn't a good day to air dry my hair.

I drove over to see The Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum.  It features the Battle of Atlanta shown through a painting that's 42 feet tall and more than 350 feet in circumference. The riveting painting is enhanced by 3D figures, music and narration. Additionally, see exhibits like steam locomotives and two floors of Civil War artifacts at the museum.

It was located at the Atlanta Zoo, which I passed on because, Frankly Dear, it was too damn cold.  And on that note ....

Built in the Tudor-Revival style in 1899, the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is where Mitchell wrote the Pulitzer-winning novel "Gone With the Wind."

The town lattice trussed Stone Mountain Covered Bridge is 151 feet long and was built in 1891.

Home of the world's largest bas-relief sculpture, Stone Mountain Park also includes the country's largest exposed granite dome, rising 650 feet above Piedmont Plateau. The bas-relief figures of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis are etched into granite.

 The State Capital is a beautiful building with a gold dome.  Unfortunately, I missed the last tour.  I don't think I will make the trip back ... trying to sight-see in Atlanta is like trying to sight-see in LA - massive traffic and no place to park.

I also passed on the Atlanta Botanical Garden because of the cold and I thought there would be no plants to see this time of year.  They had a beautiful light display I missed .... a friend from one of my RV groups was there for her husband's birthday tonight ... 

Tomorrow is errand day and then we are expecting 3 days of rain .... and then onto Florida, where Nikki told me was 80 degrees today. It will be nice to be warm.