Day 14 Week 2

Visited the ‘Home of the Tuskegee Airmen’ today. Moton airfield was the primary flight training field for the Tuskegee Airmen. The hanger that the National Parks Service has set up the museum up in, is the original hanger used by the Black trainee pilots. All the surrounding buildings are preserved in as close to the original condition as possible. It is quite a good display.

After this, I travelled slowly through the Georgian back country heading up to the battle field of Chickamauga in the north of the State. I met a number of colourful characters along the way.

Steve Shirah

 Steve and his brother Wayne

This is the 'old' Georgian State flag that Steve gave me. It was the official flag from 1956 - 2001. The Government caved in to pressure to replace it because it had the Conferderate Battle flag on it. There were heaps of protest marches and petitions to keep it but the government went ahead and changed it anyway.

The countryside is beautiful around here.  A lot of ruins scattered throughout the bush.

I am in the town of Rome tonight. I will push on up to Chickamauga in the morning and then travel east through Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains into North Carolina.