Why are you going to Columbus? That was the question I had to answer every time I told anyone that our first stopoff point on our tour after Atlanta would be Columbus. Well, maybe this is why...
or this...
Now anyone who knows about Georgian geography will know that neither of these places are actually in Columbus; however, if we hadn't decided to head down to Columbus, we would not have seen either view.
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| The Little White House |
On Tuesday morning we left Atlanta and began our journey south. We stopped en route first at Dowdell's Knob (where the first picture was taken) and then at The Little White House which is in Warm Springs. Before becoming president, Franklin D. Roosevelt came down to the town of Warm Springs to bathe in their warm springs (!) as he tried to find a cure for the paralysis of his legs which was a consequence of contracting polio. Despite not being cured, he did find it helped, and the welcome he received led him to buy a property (called the Little White House) which he visited regularly. While staying here he often liked to have picnics overlooking the Pine Mountain Valley from the top of Dowdell's knob. I found it really refreshing to see a video of his life, and how relaxed he was around the locals of Warm Springs - there was footage of him splashing around in the springs with some of the local children. It was amusing to hear that his picnics were no basic affair, with fine linen table cloths and silverware the order of the day!
On the Wednesday, after lunch with some good friends I had made over the year who lived just across the border in Alabama (see earlier
post for details of my Thanksgiving experience I had shared with them), we headed back up towards Warm Springs, but instead stopped off at Callaway Gardens (where the second photo was taken). A better word to describe the place would be forest - we had to drive from place to place around it as it was too far to walk and see everything we wanted to. There was a butterfly house and a number of different flower walks, and then the beautiful chapel situated in the middle of the forest. As with a number of places we have seen on our tour so far, we felt as though we could have easily spent longer there, but time did not allow. We had a quiet evening before, on Thursday morning, heading further south on stage 3 of our tour.
On the Wednesday, after lunch with some good friends I had made over the year who lived just across the border in Alabama (see earlier post for details of my Thanksgiving experience I had shared with them), we headed back up towards Warm Springs, but instead stopped off at Callaway Gardens (where the second photo was taken). A better word to describe the place would be forest - we had to drive from place to place around it as it was too far to walk and see everything we wanted to. There was a butterfly house and a number of different flower walks, and then the beautiful chapel situated in the middle of the forest. As with a number of places we have seen on our tour so far, we felt as though we could have easily spent longer there, but time did not allow. We had a quiet evening before, on Thursday morning, heading further south on stage 3 of our tour.
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