Red Roof Inn Chattanooga

Hello Everyone! What an interesting and busy week it has been. We have been in Chattanooga, Tennessee famous for it's civil war battles and the Chattanooga Choo Choo (the first passenger railway servicing the South), made famous in a song.<br><br> We started off our week by checking out the natural beauty of the area. Lookout Mountain is one of the main attractions in the area and it contains, amongst other things, Rock City and Ruby Falls. Rock City ...

We have arrived in Chattanooga and found ourselves a bargain basement priced little wooden cabin to keep us out of the rain and in the warmth, yay! This is just a short entry. This week we will be staying here in Chattanooga checking out the surrounds and making a few day trips to neighbouring states. <br><br>We will keep you updated. Lots of Love, the warm, Bek and Jesse Train<br>

I wake up at 9:00am. Wow, I said I wanted to sleep late but I didn't think I&#8217;d get to sleep that late. Breakfast is only until 9:30 so we head down to eat before showers. We have the rest of the drive to Knoxville today as well as a stop at Chickamauga National Battlefield Park. Breakfast is standard Holiday Inn Express fair and surprisingly the breakfast area is not packed. Must be because it is a weekday and many people ...

... for a touring bike - a lot of ruts and unstable due to gravel. It was a sunny day and the view was spectacular. Dan &amp; Darla had visited the overlook a month earlier and it was an overcast day. This day was clear and the visibility was immense. <br><br>We left the overlook and when we reached the end of the gravel road we turned right and turned ...

Jamie, Zach, and I can now say that we have done what all the barns and bird houses across the southeast has been requesting people to do: See Rock City. Rock City is a Labrinth of rock formations on the highest peak in Tennessee. From one spot we could Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. Zach enjoyed looking at the rocks that loomed overhead and the massive waterfall.

Today we toured the Chickamauga National Military Park--site of the September 19 &amp; 20, 1863 Civil War Battle.<br><br>The area is beautiful! There are roughly 600 monuments scattered throughout the entire park. Much fewer tourists than Gettysburg. My biggest disappointment is ...

... and even tho' we got an extra large room it was a kinda depressing place. We headed straight out to inspect the town and to find the Choo-Choo, which we did, only to find it is the old railway station (now a hotel). Nothing special but, that said, probably the high-light of a fairly uninteresting city. I'd guess the equivalent would be visiting Halifax in the UK. We drove over the Cumberland River and back over another bridge and ...

... few for red beans and rice with andouille sausage, or shrimp served Creole, grilled, or piled on a po-boy. Flowers bloom in brick-edged beds, and soon the Saturday night crawfish boils begin. Live blues and jazz on weekends; frog legs anytime. Changing from old and brick to new and slick, at the other end of Market Street we find tables in Jack's Alley, a newly paved pink-and-concrete passage that leads through the block to Broad Street ...

... Cincinnati Reds. Years from now you'll smile and remember - you saw them here. The four games with Memphis wind up hometown play for the year, so pick one day, or more. Saturday is Famous Chicken night; Sunday's postgame fireworks dazzle us right into Labor Day. And every game offers lighthearted antics, foot-stomping sound effects, and an atmosphere of good-natured fun. General Admission, in full dress military ...

I'm home now, and overpowered by nostalgia. I lived in Summerville once, drove by the house today, was living there when baby number two joined the family, he was born at the hospital in Rome, that was almost 36 years ago! How many times have I driven that road before? The John Ross house affects me too, my heart twinges up when I think about his forced removal from his home. One-eighth Cherokee! A respected businessman and community leader. He lobbied ...