… so, now i am in Atlanta. What should i say? Mephy would ask me “How was your flight?” because usually i always have “luck” with my flights that there is always special happens. So it was also with this flight. BUT at this time it was special, that there was nothing 😉 Yes, nothing, it was one of my best flights. First it thought it would be a horror because some very small kids was next to me, but somehow they had very great parents and they was quiet during all the flight (9,5h). An additional bonus was that this flight had enough free seats so i had my seat next to me for my own usage. As on approach to Atlanta Airport it was vey nice to see and other airplane approaching at the same level and landing exactly at the same time as we had our touch down. Border control and immigration was quite fast and unusally because they have automated that with machines making a picture and taking your finger prints. You will only get an receipt which you have to show an officer,…… after waiting the usual time in queue 😉 so far for “automation process”
Subject: jet lag, somehow i managed that very well, due to some short naps in the ICE train on my way from Munich to Frankfurt. Then i got a 4 hour sleep on the airplane, which got me near to be sync to the difference of 6 hours. The next days i stayed up between 23:00 and 2:00 clock. Now its day #4 and i made it. Here are some impressions from the first days.
Currently i am staying in Stone Mountain, so the first visit was the sight with the same name. The Stone Mountain (250m height) with the relief sculpture of the three generals of the civil war with an dimension of 30×60 meters. We took a ride with the cable car to the top and did an walk downwards. Sadly the weather wasn’t that good, but it still was a great view and we could see the sky scrapers of Atlanta in the mist.
Later this week we drove to Five Points, Piedmont Park and Downtown to the World of Coca Cola (Atlanta is the headquater of Coca Cola). It was a very sunny but also a very cold and windy day, so we decided to warm us up there and get some “refreshing beverages”. Was nice to see that old signs, bottles, Coke machines and history. I also had the chance to hold on of the original olympic torches from London 2012 in my hands. Finally we decided to beat the “tasting room”, an collection of 62 different sorts of soda from around the world. Free for everybody with an big stomach to try it. As we was very thirsty we made it to our quest to drink/try each kind of these sodas. Have you read the names of these? Do you know what? Yes, a lot of them tastes like they sounds or look like. After trying all “Fukushima sodas” we felt very sick and ready to start over directly to the hospital. Every burp didn’t helped us very much, because the taste of all that colourful and too sweet drinks came back to our mouth. Trying to defeat the bad taste with the original Coke doesn’t helped anymore 😉 and we assumed that will have an fluorescent (“glow in the dark”) pee in the next days…