Once the Good Sam Rally ended on October 21, we headed to Stone Mountain Park and Campground, east of Atlanta. We enjoyed the lovely lake-side campground despite our site – 293 - being extremely bumpy required lots of boards to get the Titanium leveled.
Stone Mountain is a massive bowl-shaped dome of granite that rises 825 feet above the plateau – one of the largest hunks of freestanding granite in the world. The mountain contains the Confederate Memorial Carving – the world’s largest relief sculpture. It is a carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson all riding their horses.
We were sorry to have to miss the Laser light show and the other attractions in the park but they are open only on weekends in October.
We used the campground as a base to explore Atlanta a bit more. We went Houston’s Steak house on Monday night for Paul’s birthday dinner.
On Tuesday the 22nd, we spent the afternoon at the Georgia aquarium – the world’s largest aquarium which was built with money from Bernard Marcus of Home Depot. It is a beautiful facility with fascinating exhibits – well worth the visit.
We then walked through the Centennial Olympic Park on our way to Pittypat’s Porch restaurant – one of the oldest southern restaurants in downtown Atlanta. The restaurant was named after Scarlett O’Hara’s aunt in the movie Gone with the Wind. We thought that the southern cuisine was delicious – despite some of the negative online reviews which we read.
On our way back to Stone Mountain, we drove through the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site. We will have to go back to Atlanta to explore the site more fully. Jane is already planning another trip so that she can visit the Gone with the Wind sites.
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