Tag: Atlanta

I’m working on this post from an Amtrak train to New Orleans. It’s pretty great that this is an option so I can skip the airport, but also says a lot that the station I’m in serves one train in each direction daily and nothing else. I might write another post about my train thoughts…

My parents and youngest sister, along with her husband, made the 2ish hour drive up to Atlanta Friday so they could join the tour for a couple of days. At my mom’s suggestion, we met up at Ikea for Swedish meatballs and discounted home goods. We all enjoyed the meatballs, but only my mom partook…

In the ancient days when I was in college, there were a couple of occasions when my friends and I would make the 2 hour drive to downtown Atlanta to attend performances at the Shakespeare Tavern. I have distinctly fond memories of seeing my first performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor there twenty years…

Something that has been a bit of a surprise about the section of downtown Atlanta I’m staying in is the lack of traffic. The infrastructure is mostly three and four lane roads, many of them one-way, but I haven’t seen a time of day when they’ve seemed particularly crowded. I don’t know if this is…

While arriving in Atlanta Wednesday night (January 3, a few days later than originally planned) does mark the start of a pretty exciting new chapter in my life, I’m going to avoid waxing poetic about all that in favor of just talking about Atlanta so far. I’m staying in an AirBnB condo near Peachtree Center…