24 states down, 24 to go...

HEre is the post. I will try and post pics after this...wish me luck.So after Louisiana, we drove along the gulf coast thru Mississippi and Alabama. We visited a battleship in Mobile. We continued along the coast to spend the night in Pensacola. After spending a nice morning on the beach, we drove to Atlanta. We were able to go up to Stone Mountain that night. It was nice, they do a fun laser light show that we were able to see before heading to the hotel that night. THe next morning, we walked around the Centennial Olympic Park and toured World of Coke- where we tried many different flavors of soda- Gary's fave was pine nut candy and mine (other than the Mr. Pibb) would have to be Barqs red creme. After getting our fill of coke, we headed to Savannah. SO- I'm sure that we will offend some, but I was not at all impressed with this city. I am also upset that in order to get into Paula Deen's restaurant, you have to show up and line up to put your name on a list of reservations...you cannot call to hold reservations. You are welcome to sit on the sidewalk and continue pestering the people to see if they have a table, but pretty much they have a terrible system to seat people. Gary did happen to coax them into some peach cobbler to go, since one of the hardest things to find in Georgia-Nicknamed: The peach state is Peach desserts! After Georgia, we visited Hilton Head to take in a beach/golf day and then spent the night in Charleston. Charleston was pretty cool. We didn't have enough time to really explore, but we loved the city with its historical homes and churches lining the streets. After Charleston, we went to North Carolina- Asheville to visit The Biltmore Estate, which was awesome. We drove through the Smokey Mtns' the next morning and after nearly freezing to death on the first hike of the day the kids and I were finished with getting out of the car. (I think that it was only 50, but the wind was pushing us over....it was miserable) Anyway, we moved along to Kentucky for the night. On the way, we found the roadside tourist trap city of the US--can't remember its name, but gokart tracks, arcades, mini golf, ripleys, wonderworks,as seen on tv stores lined the main street of this town. The ONE thing we stopped for was the ZORBING track. Gary and Jake tried it and it's all Jake talks about now (which is pretty annoying since it wasn't on the itinerary, certaining there is something that we PLANNED that impressed him too?) Anyway we made it to Kentucky and took in a showing of Harry Potter, since I needed to see it- it was pretty good. The next am, we went to the Kentucky Horse Farm and checked it out. Jessie rode a pony and I think that was her highlight for the day. We then drove through WEst Virginia and ended up at The HOmestead Resort in Hot Springs, VA. Beautiful. We stayed there for 2 nights and loved the relaxing/no driving for a day. The kids and I did a nice hike where we saw waterfalls and thankfully no snakes (which normally are a extremely common sight on this hike), Gary did a round at the famous Cascades Course and I took in a spa treatment. The HOmestead is a famous resort that Thomas Jefferson frequented. After a little rest, we drove to Our Nations Capital.