Atlanta to Savannah -- Apr. 13th

Worst day of the trip so far. I woke up to 50+ mph winds, and as I was showering, the power went out at Clint's house. Not a big deal, I just opened the door and finished. But it was definitely a harbinger of how the rest of the day would go. I said goodbye to Kathy, Clint was already at work for the day, and headed into downtown Atlanta. I went to a museum in a new part of town to see the Bodies Revealed exhibit. It has actual human bodies that have been preserved and plasticized and then posed with their innards showing certain points of interest throughout the exhibit. It was awesome! They had every part you could imagine, with bodies showing skeletons, musculature, arteries, veins, organs, etc. They had every stage of a fetus, and entire human bodies sliced paper thin and laid out separated all the way across the room. I learned a lot. I wasn't supposed to take any pictures in there, but I managed 3 or 4 on my phone, so I'll see how they come out. That was the highlight of the day, for sure.
After that, I headed out, excited for the fact that my list of diners, drive-ins, and dives had about 5 places in the ATL area. I drove to a place called Cabbagetown, closed on Mondays. Fine. I drove to The Colonnade, didn't open until 5 pm. I drove to the Silver Skillet, closed at 230 pm. By this time it was 3 pm, and I hadn't eaten in over 24 hours. My stomach was rumbling, and I was cranky. I decided to not waste my time driving all over town, so I called The Marietta Diner, no answer. And the 5th place was 32 minutes away. Did I mention that Atlanta has extremely well placed construction that my GPS didn't know about and it kept telling me to turn the wrong way on one way streets, and the winds earlier had caused several trees to fall into the road, causing even more fun for me and navigation. I gave up and drove through a Checker's Burger joint. It was heaven, I think by that point I would have eaten my shoe. At the end of my rope with the overcrowded, unfriendly city, I decided to check out the Botanical Gardens before I started on my way to Savannah. Closed on Monday. Thanks Atlanta, I didn't know you were closed on Mondays, or I might have came on a Tuesday!
I headed out of town, it was raining pretty hard the entire 3 1/2 hour drive, there were countless jackasses in the fast lane going 15 mph slower than me, who refused to get over, and every time I passed a semi, I had about 50 feet of no visibility, as the rain it was kicking up off of its tires deluged my car. Finally arrived in Savannah, hit up WalMart and Target for a few supplies and checked into a Best Value Inn for two nights. I figured I'd spend a little more time here, because this is one of places I wanted to see most. And it was supposed to rain all day Tuesday also. I thought that if it was going to rain all day Tuesday, I might as well hit up the bars and I could probably sleep in a bit. I found out about a bar called the Wormhole, who had a band playing, and found my way there. When I got there, the bands were done because one of them didn't show up, but the owner, Amy was very nice and talked to me for awhile about starting her new business, music, and several other things. Smoking is allowed in bars here, and it's kinda nasty. But the place was a pretty cool little music venue, and I met several people, all nice, there. They had to throw out a crackhead, and I met Katie and Andrew, a couple of artists, and we immediatrly hit it off. I got tons of suggestions as to what to do, and then I left and Katie and Andrew and I went to couple other bars together, before I called it a night at 3 am. I guess the bars called it a night. I could've stayed a bit longer. I missed my exit on the way back to my hotel and wasted about a half hour of my time, but all in all, it was a good night. Thank goodness, because the day was bad. The town seems real cool, though, I drove ny the visitor's center on the way in, it was closed, but there is a school right by it called SCAD. Savannah College of Art and Design, and there were tons of people around that were right up my alley, I could tell by their style. I'm excited for Tuesday, hopefully it doesn't rain all day.