From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com
Tim and Linda Bunyan
We've departed our Atlantic Seashore, Florida Keys Loop, and the Florida Gulf Coast to head north to Atlanta, Georgia.
We have arrived at Stone Mountian, Georgia. At the entrance, we were given a Campground Newsletter filled with news at the campground:
Day Pass Tickets, Services: Laundry, Garbage Pickup, Cable TV, Mail Drop, Free WiFi....are we home yet !!! Other news: Events, Church Services, Coffee & Danish Social, Campground Store with firewood, propane, ice, ice cream, snacks drinks, groceries, milk, bread, supplies, live bait, fishing tackle. Park Attractions (by day and date) such as the Lasershow, pumpkin festival, historical pass, Ride The Ducks (no unfortunate accidents here), Terrace Seating for the laser show, emergency after hours, and emergency shelter listings on each Trail. Page 2: Hayrides, popcorn & hot cider, park phone numbers, and campground swimming pool hours.
MAIN ENTRANCE 'GATE' and digital sign to the Stone Mountain Park Campground!
Drive by the Golf Course and Country Club on our way to the Registration Office for our site reservation.
This is the Registration Office. We purchased the Historic Pass for 3 days of museums, house tours, and laser show. No golf for us, it is on the To Do List ....
.....when we 'retire' !!
We are at our Lakeside campsite. Yes, the lake is manmade. It took nearly 2 years to fill! "Looking Out Our Backdoor"
Lakeside Sunset. 
NEXT DAY: Into Atlanta to the Presidential Library, The National Archives and Records Administration.
We take off for a day trip: ENTRANCE TO: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, a simple 15-minute drive to just outside downtown Atlanta.
Yes, after serving in the Navy, Jimmy returned home to help out his father's business. He married his high school sweetheart, Rosalyn and they set to work expanding their business.
After several campaign attempts, he served as Georgia Governor and was elected President in 1977 - 1981.
We have arrived at Stone Mountian, Georgia. At the entrance, we were given a Campground Newsletter filled with news at the campground:
Day Pass Tickets, Services: Laundry, Garbage Pickup, Cable TV, Mail Drop, Free WiFi....are we home yet !!! Other news: Events, Church Services, Coffee & Danish Social, Campground Store with firewood, propane, ice, ice cream, snacks drinks, groceries, milk, bread, supplies, live bait, fishing tackle. Park Attractions (by day and date) such as the Lasershow, pumpkin festival, historical pass, Ride The Ducks (no unfortunate accidents here), Terrace Seating for the laser show, emergency after hours, and emergency shelter listings on each Trail. Page 2: Hayrides, popcorn & hot cider, park phone numbers, and campground swimming pool hours.
MAIN ENTRANCE 'GATE' and digital sign to the Stone Mountain Park Campground!
Drive by the Golf Course and Country Club on our way to the Registration Office for our site reservation.
This is the Registration Office. We purchased the Historic Pass for 3 days of museums, house tours, and laser show. No golf for us, it is on the To Do List ....
.....when we 'retire' !!
We are at our Lakeside campsite. Yes, the lake is manmade. It took nearly 2 years to fill! "Looking Out Our Backdoor"
NEXT DAY: Into Atlanta to the Presidential Library, The National Archives and Records Administration.
We take off for a day trip: ENTRANCE TO: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, a simple 15-minute drive to just outside downtown Atlanta.
(Campaigned and won the Presidency in 1977 over Gerald Ford).
(Lost in 1981 to Ronald Reagan.)
A display of his favorite childhood books included: The Royal Road to Romance, Jack London's Call of the Wild, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Burroughs: Hardy Boys, and Tolstoy's War & Peace.
This delightful photograph (along with the baseball) is autographed by all these Presidents. Jimmy kept it among all his office belongings: George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and James Earl Carter Jr. What a treasure, they were all in the same room at the same time and each signed this baseball. This was, most likely, the first To Do on Jimmy Carter's list as he became President!
The grounds here at the presidential library are just outside the busy Atlanta city limits. Carter's peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts since he left office have made Carter renowned as one of the most successful ex-presidents in American history.
The Alaska Wilderness League presents this sculpture in tribute to President Jimmy Carter for extraordinary vision and leadership in the protecting the incomparable wilderness and wildlife of our last frontier.
The Presidential Library and Museum and Research complex buildings located on Freedom Parkway. Filled with 27 million pages of documents: Headquarters of James Earl Carter Jr.
NEXT DAY:
Into Atlanta. WOW, this is a metropolitan city! The capital of Georgia. Downtown, Centennial Olympic Park, built for the 1996 Olympics. World of Coco-Cola Headquarters, CNN Headquarters and Studio Tours
Arriving Atlanta skyline
World of Coca-Cola. Notice the cola bottle within the building.
Table and chairs set up on the open downtown lawn for the evening event for "EY".....we found the "EY" was for Ernst & Young! Their headquarters building is in the picture with the simple EY on the front.
Tim is here at the Coca-Cola tasting room with the brochure in English.........there were a dozen different languages to choose.
The room displaying the history of advertisement for Coca-Cola.
The man 'behind the curtain'. John Pemberton, was an American pharmacist who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola.
IT's in the shape!
Tasting Room of ALL the Coca-Cola products sold in each continent.
The Coca-Cola plaza is appropriately named: Pemberton Place.
The College Football Hall of Fame.
Centennial Park, named for the Hosts of the 1996 Summer Olympics. SkyView Ferris wheel with 42 air-conditioned cars.
Monument of Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympic movement.
Tim strolling Centennial Olympic Park, 21-acre public park in downtown Atlanta.
Located adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park is the CNN World Headquarters.
We toured the CNN World Headquarters and Studio. The main newsrooms and news channels are located in this building. It is occupied entirely by CNN and its sister company, Turner Broadcasting System.
Time to get out of the city, so we stop at a neighborhood enclave: Five Points. Dined on Mexican Grill food, chef quality, and fine presentation.
Back to our Stone Mountain Campground: located on Stonewall Jackson Drive
Stone Mountain, granite....and the (man-made Lake) which took 2 years to fill!
Here is our CasaRoll next to the lake.
We chose to take a walk in the park on the Bell Trail.
This is the Bell Tower, such a surprise to be walking in the woods and suddenly hear bells. The music is playing "Some Enchanted Evening" !!! This 'speaker board structure' was located on the trail.
Here next to the lake.
With a 'listening bench' for comfort seating.
We came upon the Carillon where the tunes are played every Sunday
This is the cabin from which Ms. Mabel Florence plays the music on a series of baton-like keys arranged in the same pattern as a piano keyboard. This is an outside circular stone seating area for those that find this special Bell Trail in the woods!
This stunning view is from the top of the world's largest relief carving....down to the fountains on the ground below.
Views to the Northwest, you can see Atlanta skyline!
At the top of the granite stone mountain: View to the North to Stone Mountain Park.....our campsite is located just to the side of Tim's right shoulder.
The Skyride cable car
The relief carved into the North side of Stone Mountain.
The horse's mouth: this is a replica of the horse's mouth as Tim stands at the mouth of the horse, showing its size! The thumb of Robert E. Lee is size of a couch!
This is the best a phone camera can do.
We stayed for the evening Lasershow Spectacular in Mountainvision !!! Patriot music and Southern Country singers of the Confederate States' greatest hits played for an hour of lights and fireworks!!! It was spectacular! It was due reverence given to the Confederacy, it was entertaining.
Fireworks
A wonderful way to end our stay here at Stone Mountain. A place one could dream and experience a dream come true.
Time to continue north to some elevation near the Blue Ridge Mountains!!!
(Lost in 1981 to Ronald Reagan.)
This is a display of James Earl Carter Jr.'s office while serving at the White House.
A display of his favorite childhood books included: The Royal Road to Romance, Jack London's Call of the Wild, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Burroughs: Hardy Boys, and Tolstoy's War & Peace.
This delightful photograph (along with the baseball) is autographed by all these Presidents. Jimmy kept it among all his office belongings: George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and James Earl Carter Jr. What a treasure, they were all in the same room at the same time and each signed this baseball. This was, most likely, the first To Do on Jimmy Carter's list as he became President!
The grounds here at the presidential library are just outside the busy Atlanta city limits. Carter's peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts since he left office have made Carter renowned as one of the most successful ex-presidents in American history.
The Alaska Wilderness League presents this sculpture in tribute to President Jimmy Carter for extraordinary vision and leadership in the protecting the incomparable wilderness and wildlife of our last frontier.
NEXT DAY:
Into Atlanta. WOW, this is a metropolitan city! The capital of Georgia. Downtown, Centennial Olympic Park, built for the 1996 Olympics. World of Coco-Cola Headquarters, CNN Headquarters and Studio Tours
Arriving Atlanta skyline
World of Coca-Cola. Notice the cola bottle within the building.
Table and chairs set up on the open downtown lawn for the evening event for "EY".....we found the "EY" was for Ernst & Young! Their headquarters building is in the picture with the simple EY on the front.
Tim is here at the Coca-Cola tasting room with the brochure in English.........there were a dozen different languages to choose.
The room displaying the history of advertisement for Coca-Cola.
IT's in the shape!
Tasting Room of ALL the Coca-Cola products sold in each continent.
The Coca-Cola plaza is appropriately named: Pemberton Place.
The College Football Hall of Fame.
Centennial Park, named for the Hosts of the 1996 Summer Olympics. SkyView Ferris wheel with 42 air-conditioned cars.
Monument of Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympic movement.
Muhammad Ali lit the torch for the 1996 Games Opening.
Tim strolling Centennial Olympic Park, 21-acre public park in downtown Atlanta.
Located adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park is the CNN World Headquarters.
World's Longest Span and Freestanding Escaltor inside the CNN Center.
Back to our Stone Mountain Campground: located on Stonewall Jackson Drive
Stone Mountain, granite....and the (man-made Lake) which took 2 years to fill!
Here is our CasaRoll next to the lake.
It is time to experience Stone Mountain!!! We take the Summit Skyride....to the top!
This is a view from the high-speed Swiss cable car.
Views to the Northwest, you can see Atlanta skyline!
The Skyride cable car
This is the sculture on the face of this granite mountain:
The horse's mouth: this is a replica of the horse's mouth as Tim stands at the mouth of the horse, showing its size! The thumb of Robert E. Lee is size of a couch!
This is the best a phone camera can do.
We stayed for the evening Lasershow Spectacular in Mountainvision !!! Patriot music and Southern Country singers of the Confederate States' greatest hits played for an hour of lights and fireworks!!! It was spectacular! It was due reverence given to the Confederacy, it was entertaining.
Oddly, there was no mention of any of the 50 years of KKK meetings and cross burnings held at the mountain's summit. Ha!
As Martin Luther King said in his 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963 "...let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia".
A wonderful way to end our stay here at Stone Mountain. A place one could dream and experience a dream come true.
Time to continue north to some elevation near the Blue Ridge Mountains!!!
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