ATL

Atlanta, GA to Charlotte, NC - 238 mi
Song of the Ride - Down In It by Tiga
July 13th-July 14th






Man I really need to do this everyday because this whole writing it down all at once thing isn’t working for me. I forget half the stuff I was going to tell y’all...and it takes too long when I have to cover 6 days at once. Like... I did so much in Atlanta...and that’s like...a lot to typpppppeeeeee. I stayed there for 3 nights, which was an extra night than I had planned. But, I am so so so glad I stayed...I'll tell you in a sec why. Mmk so I get there at liiiiiikkkkkkeeeee 5 or 6 right Emily? I’m not sure... And AAA freaks me out a lil bit because I didn’t have to ask Emily for directions but I got to her place just fine. She lives next to what I would call a "ghetto"... it probably isn’t half as bad as a real ghetto buuuuuuuuut it was still pretty ghetto-like. It’s real strange because Emily's neighborhood is a lot like Boerne/Georgetown...but they aren’t next to ghettos...and I mean RIGHT next. IM NOT LYINGGGGGGG. This night is all about the Katey relaxing because she drove and was hot a lot. And the Next two days are really relaxing compared to the last two. Atlanta is a really cool city. I think the combination of Ted Turner owning everything and having the Olympics there really put a lot of money into the city. On our first day she takes me into the city to see a lot of touristy stuff. I get to ride a train.......orrrrrr metro...whatev you wanna call it. Since I'm really 5 yrs old on the inside this made me excited. She took me to Underground Atlanta which Id say is Atlanta's equivalent of the River Walk. Same concept... stores.... restaurants... vendors... bunched together around some type of walkway. This is where I saw

Asians fulfilling a stereotype and I'm sorry if you think this is going to hell worthy but I had to take pictures.

Even though it's incredibly touristy, and really just a way for coke to rake in more money, I want to go to the Coke museum so that’s what we do nexttttttt and this is where I start my "thing” of wanting to hug things in my pictures. There were giant cokes and polar bears though, so I can’t be blamed. They had a buncha diff flavors of their coke products from other countries and I wish I tasted the watermelon coke but oh well. IIII didn’t really read any of the history or anything because reading is a lot of effort when you’re on a road trip. Take it from me guys, I would know, I am on a road trip right now, reading is tough. So I look at the neon, giant, flashy things and I'm out. Anddddd since I wanted to see the city we walk to our next destination which is Centennial Park, I think... It ends up being a longer walk than I thought, at least I'm getting a work out but it's so dang hot out. On our way over there we see the CNN building and decide to go innnnn. Pretty damn cool building, didn’t take the tour though... probably should have but at least I got to see Anderson Cooper times 10. And take a picture with CNN in big lettersssss...I'm making a newscaster face if you can’t tell.










From there we go to the park and I get to stand in a circle of water next to a guy that looks like John Ritter. We pass on anymore walking and head back to her house via closest MARTA station. I’m definitely getting old because I’m realllyyyy tired when we get back, all that being outside, and doing stuff, I’m not used to it. The original plan was that I was gonna leave in the morning but I decide to stick around because theres more to do.








The next day she takes me around her town; where I took pictures with statues. And then to Little 5 Points to a strange store called Junk Man’s Daughters….wide variety of things in there, good weird but fun gift shop. The best part comes after Junk Man’s when we’re walkin down the street to go to another store and I see all these music posters and I’m like what’s that? Cause it doesn’t really look like an open store. But when we go in it’s this really cool record shop. That guy had everything. I’m pretty sure all the employees were foreign too. He has a lot of kick ass posters on the wall and barely any of them go over 7 bucks. I get a Wolfmother one for 3.50 and he threw in free stickers!







And when I ask him for a phoenix one (cause I thought of you EK and wanted to get you one) he told me to look in this pile of FREE posters and I was like what the crap is it my birthday? Of course, there were no Phoenix one’s left, but he had a lot of others that I took w/ me (including Muse). Man that made my day. Good work Emily, I bet that was your plan all along. DODODODOD Cruise round rich neighborhood and then time to, once again, relax. Monty Python’s pretty funny…I watch it when I was like 10 but didn’t remember a thing, cept for the coconuts; we watched it that night while I packed. Atlanta was a success for sure.