Bye Bye Alabama - Hello Georgia (14th September)

We're still on the Civil Rights trail, but this time in Georgia. We hop on an Interstate and drive to Atlanta. We lose an hour today as we have entered a new time zone. In Atlanta is the Martin Luther King Jnr. National Historic Monument, consisting of an Information Center, the Ebenezer Baptist church where his maternal grand-father, father and himself preached (plus the new one built some 15 years ago which is pretty full when we poke our noses in), his birth home and lastly, he and his wife's crypts. We have learnt so much in the last week, that the early years are well known to us, but the later years give us some more insight in to what a driving force the man was. Gandhi is a part of the story as King used his nonviolent teachings in all of his messages. We don't go inside the birth home as the available tours are too late in the day. The crypts sit in pools with gentle flowing water, a quite and reflective place. As we move out of Atlanta, quiet reflections is not an option. Here is 8 lanes of traffic moving at 120 km/hour in each direction. Great job to merge and stay up with the flow. On leaving the "rat race" we pass through some small towns of Georgia and visit the oldest Court House in Georgia (built 1822) with the longest bench, now a seat out the front.Across the street we have lunch at the fair at Fayetteville, before we see a covered bridge, the first for the trip, and then a fairly quiet drive, with a deer sighting to Thomaston for the night.