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Saturday - trains and reading
May. 6th, 2007 03:53 amMorning - a lie-in, a late breakfast, and a visit to "the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw" to find out about "The Great Locomotive Chase" and other things rail-roady. The Chase is a great spy story that happens to be true.
Onwards, stopping at a Cracker Barrel for lunch, and there buying cheap Tshirts (mine proclaims that I haven't lost my mind, just temporarily mislaid it, Dave's is secret till Xmas) and the Cracker Barrel Puzzle.
I've been reading as Dave drives, and have now finished "Edge of the Wood". Need to think about it and mail comments to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telynor.
Visited our first battlefield of the trip: Chickamauga. An interesting battle. Lessons to be learnt (Union):
1) if someone says there's a hole in the centre of your line, verify the report before shifting units to fill it
2) do not make mistakes when Longstreet is around to exploit them
and for the Confederates, if a subordinate has just won you a major victory and the enemy, including their general, is routing, follow up!
We're at the Hampton Inn in Chattanooga tonight and tomorrow night. Dinner was at the Big River Grill. Plans for tomorrow include Lookout Mountain, and the aquarium. We've discovered that it has penguins. It looks as if the zoo has Snow Leopards, so we'll have to visit them, too. After all, as I realised back when I was doing a sponsored walk to save them, Snow Leopards are really alynxes.
Onwards, stopping at a Cracker Barrel for lunch, and there buying cheap Tshirts (mine proclaims that I haven't lost my mind, just temporarily mislaid it, Dave's is secret till Xmas) and the Cracker Barrel Puzzle.
I've been reading as Dave drives, and have now finished "Edge of the Wood". Need to think about it and mail comments to
telynor. Visited our first battlefield of the trip: Chickamauga. An interesting battle. Lessons to be learnt (Union):
1) if someone says there's a hole in the centre of your line, verify the report before shifting units to fill it
2) do not make mistakes when Longstreet is around to exploit them
and for the Confederates, if a subordinate has just won you a major victory and the enemy, including their general, is routing, follow up!
We're at the Hampton Inn in Chattanooga tonight and tomorrow night. Dinner was at the Big River Grill. Plans for tomorrow include Lookout Mountain, and the aquarium. We've discovered that it has penguins. It looks as if the zoo has Snow Leopards, so we'll have to visit them, too. After all, as I realised back when I was doing a sponsored walk to save them, Snow Leopards are really alynxes.