The Crescent offers an interesting (and often overlooked on the national level) ride between Atlanta and Birmingham..... lot's of small towns, more hills than most people realize, a railroad that twists and turns almost (but not quite) as much as the kudzu which lines the right of way.
And yes GBN - if you've seen one telephone pole covered with kudzu, you've seen pretty much every telephone pole covered with kudzu.
Posted by Train Granny (Member # 30118) on :
quote:Originally posted by notelvis: if you've seen one telephone pole covered with kudzu, you've seen pretty much every telephone pole covered with kudzu.
You haven't traveled the South until you have watched kudzu grow! Two patches of kudzu (one on each side of a rural dirt road) will "reach out" arms of green toward each other and totally swallow anything between them. Roads have been known to disappear under kudzu!
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Seems as if I get quite enough of Southeast vegetation on my almost annual Auto Train journeys.
Posted by palmland (Member # 4344) on :
Hope you have an on time arrival into New Orleans, Train Granny. We took the trip northbound a few months ago and found the portion south of Slidell fascinating with the bayous and crossing of Lake Pontchatrain. But yes, lots of GBN's pine trees as well as Kudzu. Hope you have a good dinner planned in New Orleans - a fabulous city for unique and excellent food. Not that Amtrak's food isn't good, but...If you're not a big breakfast eater and the weather is pleasant, a trip to Cafe du Monde in the morning would give you a glimpse of the French Quarter. While it is touristy, nothing quite like cafe au lait and beignets while local musicians wander the steets