Proctor School Fourth Grade: Coffee's Road Trip to Tennessee

Road trip to Chattanooga Tennessee

2-14-14 We left early on Valentine’s day, I sat on the front dash board of the car most of the way. It was about a 2 ½ hour ride. Once we arrived we went down town Chattanooga to the Chattanooga Choo Choo. They have trains that are actually hotel rooms there. We rode the tour bus all around Chattanooga. Had fun sightseeing and taken pictures. We later went to the Tennessee Valley Railroad and got to take a ride on a train. Later in the day Keenan and I surprised Sandy with a dozen wooden roses. She loved them. She said she would have them forever.

2-15-14 We got up early and went to Ruby Falls, and Incline Railway . Ruby falls was down in the caverns in Look Out Mountain, It was very interesting but dark at times. The falls were beautiful and when you got close enough you got sprayed from the mist of the falls. On the incline railway we rode a train a mile up a 72.7 degree grade to the top of the mountain for some beautiful views of the Tennessee valley. The ride was very steep but I liked it. We also took a ride to see the Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge, it was originally a railroad bridge built in 1891 and transformed into the longest pedestrian bridge in the world.

2/16/14 We went to Rock City and Raccoon Caverns today. At Rock city we walked across a swinging bridge, it was sort of scary, I was afraid the bridge would break, we saw many different natural rock formations, and plant species, saw many spectacular views at Lookout point. At one point in rock city you can see seven states standing in one spot. Raccoon caverns were very similar to Ruby Falls without the falls. While we were touring Raccoon caverns we saw several tiny bats hanging from the ceiling on the caves sleeping, we also saw two different species of Salamanders. I thought this was cool. We were so close to the bats and they didn’t wake up.

2/17/14 Today was history day we visited the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Battlefield Lookout Mountain Visitor Center, Point Park, New York Monument, Cravens House, the Chattanooga, National Cemetery, Silverdale Confederate Cemetery, then on the way back to Georgia, we stopped and took the driving audio tour of Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park, this was the actual battlefield 150 years ago. I’ll be bringing home literature of the war, way too much to write about.