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Pardon me, boys
Jul. 15th, 2015 09:46 amSecond full day in Chattanooga. Gotta say, I think it has a lot going for it.
Downtown is busy without being logjammed. The CSO looks a little Boston Poppy, but they have one. The aquarium is really nice (It's no Monterey, but nothing is). Restaurants appear to be challenging for my diet, but I think I can make it work. Even the suburbs appear to be 15-30 minutes out of town, so there's not the exurbia set up where I had to drive an hour to get to town. There are two shuttle lines which go a lot of places--I'd probably still have to have a car to get to the end of the line station, but from there it'd take me around town. It's nice to see water that's moving--the Tennessee River loops through town twice on its way to the Ohio. People apologize when they bump into you, although they may have been tourists. That's the big dark spot right now--what are the people like? Do you have to be a Baptist or they shun you? Can you have political differences and still hold civil discourse? Do they shut down for NASCAR the way other places shut down for the World Cup? Will I have to become a Hurricanes fan?
There was *one* indicator of what the locals are like. At the Tupelo Honey Cafe I had a gentleman ask to take a photo of my Notorious RBG t-shirt because it was 'the best thing he'd ever seen'.
Downtown is busy without being logjammed. The CSO looks a little Boston Poppy, but they have one. The aquarium is really nice (It's no Monterey, but nothing is). Restaurants appear to be challenging for my diet, but I think I can make it work. Even the suburbs appear to be 15-30 minutes out of town, so there's not the exurbia set up where I had to drive an hour to get to town. There are two shuttle lines which go a lot of places--I'd probably still have to have a car to get to the end of the line station, but from there it'd take me around town. It's nice to see water that's moving--the Tennessee River loops through town twice on its way to the Ohio. People apologize when they bump into you, although they may have been tourists. That's the big dark spot right now--what are the people like? Do you have to be a Baptist or they shun you? Can you have political differences and still hold civil discourse? Do they shut down for NASCAR the way other places shut down for the World Cup? Will I have to become a Hurricanes fan?
There was *one* indicator of what the locals are like. At the Tupelo Honey Cafe I had a gentleman ask to take a photo of my Notorious RBG t-shirt because it was 'the best thing he'd ever seen'.