Sometimes it is surprising how fate steps in and decides what direction you take. Or it could be a husband that has no sense of direction and decided to drive without a gps. We also could have blamed it on the fog that enshrouded everything. Somehow....we ended up not heading toward Nashville but south on route I-75 towards Chattanooga.
Then it was too late to turn back so we headed into Georgia and went to Chickamauga Battlefield NSP. We learned a lot about the battles of the Civil War that happened around this area. War is a sad, awful, horrible thing. It was a great little area to explore. There was a really nice display and a great movie telling about the battles and the losses.
So after a fabulous lunch at Fazolis, we had some choices to make on how we would travel on. The maps were telling us that we should just travel straight back up to Nashville and then across. Why in the world would we want to go back to the boring normal route. On towards Alabama we say!
Gorgeous Tennessee river! We even stopped at a rest area that was an island in the middle of it. So cool! Our current plan is to go to the Space Center in Huntsville Alabama. Thayne loves everything NASA, so he is going to be so happy with this turn of events. There are no wrong turns when you are adventuring only happy circumstances.
One of the reasons I love road trips so much is that there is so much diversity in this country of ours. It is refreshing for our children to see cotton fields and race trains as we drive parallel. Opening them up to new ideas and experiences helps us all to be more well rounded.
One of the few benefits that we get from Michael travel for his job so much is hotel reward points. So we are able to have this spacious suite at Holiday Inn Express for free! We have enough points that we can have free rooms for the entire trip. The kids are happy with 'real' tv and hotels are always a bit fun. Except Thayne is a bit disappointed tonight that it is an outside pool and it is a bit too cold to swim. School however can be done on the road also. Both Michael and I are taking courses currently. He is finishing his Capstone for his degree with Embry-Riddle University and I am certifying in Existential Well-Being counseling. So the kids are relaxing and we are studying.
Tomorrow US Space Center then the plan is to head to Memphis and beyond.
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