Atlanta, GA

I arrived in Atlanta late in the evening. I had three couchsurfers lined up, Martha, Dave, and Kim. The only person I could get a hold of was Kim. She was happy to host me. She lives with her cousin who was going to be out of town for a couple of days which made it okay to stay there. However, when I got there, her cousin wasn't out of town. So, Kim called her sister Trinh who was happy to let me stay at her house. Trinh lives a few blocks from the city proper in a one bedroom condo. She graduated from Emory University and studies construction law for a firm in the city.

I only stayed in Atlanta for a day, and Kim was nice enough to give me a few places to check out. So I visited the Martin Luther King Jr. National Museum. There was plenty of monuments and statues of prominent figures that had an influence on civil rights in the United States, like Gandhi and Jimmy Carter.

I also visited the Jimmy Carter Center which was dedicated to the Georgia native. I thought the interesting part of the exhibit was the replication of the Oval Office during Carter's term in office, as well as the exhibit that highlighted Carter's influence on the conflicts of the Middle East.

I left Atlanta Monday night for Birmingham, Alabama, in hopes of shorting the long drive to New Orleans on Tuesday. It was only two hours away.