Hotlanta Washed Out

Our plan was to get to Atlanta early in the afternoon or evening and spend a couple hours exploring the city. I really wanted to see Stone Mountain, which was a couple miles away. But, the best laid plans do not always work out, by the time we got to the Atlanta is was late in the evening, so we decided to just eat in the city.

A friend of Jonathan who lives in the area suggested eating at the Varsity. He told Jonathan that anytime business associates came into town they always requested to eat there. I had also recently heard of the place online; it was given rave reviews. The Varsity is the Largest Drive-in restraunt in America and the staff is known for yelling repeatedly, “What y’all have!”
However, the food was by far the worst I had eaten on the trip! Chili cheese dogs with old foul tasting chili, the burgers were small, and the fries were old and soggy; hardly worth the time we spent looking for the place.

It was already late into the night, so Stone Mountain was out of the picture and we were still trying to get farther down the road so we could be in Charleston at a reasonable time. But, Jonathan’s friend told us a section of town to check out that was kind of like Claremont, Ca. It was suppose to be the hip, artistic college hangout area of Atlanta. We drove by, but by that time the weather had changed drastically; buckets of water was dowsing our windshield. Thunder and lighting were going to be the only entertainment we would have for the night.

I really wanted to walk around and see the city; I was hoping I would get a chance to do so at a future date. That future date wasn’t as far away as I thought it would be.

To be cont….