"On the road again..."

There were some pretty parts, too, and if you go there, you'll soon have buns of steel with all those stairs...
So we left Charlotte with the goal of making it through Atlanta before stopping for the evening.  Driving through northern Georgia was a treat, and the kudzu!  OMG!  It covered whole stands of trees, took over grassy areas, and turned whatever it covered into some kind of shape...bears, old men, clowns (we're imaginative, what can we say?).  J turned to me and said, "Who needs clouds?  We've got kudzu!"  We also had the most amazing sunset, but that might have been because of my sunglasses. 

Well, we got through it with no problems, and decided, as we were having dinner at a Sonic, that we would press on to Birmingham.  I didn't realize that we would be pasing right through Talladega and that there were so many mountains, or I would have waited to do the drive until morning so that we could see.  Oh, well.  It was midnight by the time we found a hotel after getting just a little turned around in Birmingham.  A piece of advice...there are very few hotels off of the interstate.  What's up with that?!  I actually had to turn around and go back through the city with my GPS to find a hotel in a place that looked like we'd survive the night :-) 

Here we are, though, bright and early...well, ok, it's 9:30, but we're off to go play!