Hello from Florida

We covered many states yesterday.  We started in Kentucky and dropped our load in Florida. It's hard to recall all that I saw pass by the window.

I would say that my geography knowledge of this country is poor at best.  It is certainly going to get a lot better.  I never realized that western New York and northeastern Pennsylvania had so many hills.  They call them hills there, in Missouri we would call them mountains!  Everything was so green and the weather was perfect.  High of 83 and lows on the mod to low 60's. 

West Virginia, western Maryland and Virginian all have those same "hills".  Up and down the hills all day.long.  Some of the grades exceeded 9%.  That is steeeeeep!  The thing I will remember the most is how tall the bridges are off the ground.  Rather than bringing the road down the hill, they would build a bridge from peak to peak.  Long way down when you look.  Kentucky is also very green. Lots of agriculture. I did see a couple of fields full of some type of crop I hadn't seen before. It took a moment before I realized that I was looking at a field of tabacco.  We did driveb past a couple of whisky distilleries.  No time to stop and sample.......too bad.

Going through Tennessee we had to drive through Nashville and Chatanooga.  In Nashville I recognized the Tennessee Titans stadium, Opryland and a building that had an ATT&T logo on it.  It looked like it belonged in the movie "Ghost Busters".  It looked like the tallest building in the downtown area.  It has two huge spires or antenna on the top.  Kinda Gothic looking.  As soon as you head south out of Nashville the signs start "see Rock City" and come see "Ruby Falls".  Occasionally there would be the obligatory "come see Lookout Mountain".  Just north of Chattanooga the mountains begin.  Very curvy highways with lots is steep grades.  Here they have the run away truck ramps. I hope to never have to use one.  With the advances in the truck technology,  you would really have to screw up to have to use them. There is another sight to see in Chattanooga. The Tennessee aquarium is located there.

Heading south out of Chatanooga you run right into Georgia. It is less hilly there.  We got to Atlanta around 9:00pm.  You wouldn't believe how much traffic there was!  My mentor Jason tells me that we were lucky to go through in the evening. During the day it is much worse. Since it was dark, the thing that caught my attention was how many and how tall the billboards were there.  I thought Missouri was bad with the sight pollution,  but it isn't anthing close to what I saw in Georgia.

The rest of the drive was mostly two lane country highways all the way into Florida.  All in all another long day ...but just look at what I got to see.....

I'll write more later.......Tom