Today was a little awkward as my checkout time at the motel was 11am but my coach to New Orleans was not until 4pm. My bag is not particularly big but it isn't the greatest thing to carry around a city. My first stop was again Starbucks to Skype my parents. The biggest difference with the day before however was that the weather was now beautiful. The downtown area of Charlotte is definitely somewhere I could see myself working and living.
The final attraction that I visited in Charlotte was 'Discovery Place', a kind of science museum aimed at the younger generation with many interactive exhibits. On the bottom floor was a pretty neat miniature aquarium, a learning classroom, and a small rainforest room. I sat down behind the glass staring for ages into the rainforest trying to spot the animals. The birds were fairly easy to spot but everything else seemed to be perfectly camouflaged. It took me a full 10 minutes just to spot the 2 tortoises on the floor right in front of me.
After a quick Cesar salad lunch (healthy, right?) I watched a film about the Arctic on a huge domed IMAX screen. The film was very good although I have seen so many Arctic documentaries that it is hard to cover new information. The top floor was probably the most interesting as it contained many, for want of a better word, toys that explained and demonstrated scientific principles. I got to lie on a bed of nails, fire an air cannon at targets, carry and centrifugally-charged briefcase, and crush cans with an industrial-sized machine.
Funtime was over however and I walked down to the Greyhound station, ready to travel on the 16 hour journey across the South to NOLA. Although the journey was not as bad as the time would suggest, it was not very comfortable waiting for an hour in the Greyhound station in Atlanta surrounded by some questionable characters. The biggest disappointment was that when driving through Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, it was pitch-black outside and I could not take in that Deep South scenery. For those of you who are aware of the works of Dylan will be excited to know that I was indeed 'Stuck (for an hour) Inside of Mobile'.
The final attraction that I visited in Charlotte was 'Discovery Place', a kind of science museum aimed at the younger generation with many interactive exhibits. On the bottom floor was a pretty neat miniature aquarium, a learning classroom, and a small rainforest room. I sat down behind the glass staring for ages into the rainforest trying to spot the animals. The birds were fairly easy to spot but everything else seemed to be perfectly camouflaged. It took me a full 10 minutes just to spot the 2 tortoises on the floor right in front of me.
After a quick Cesar salad lunch (healthy, right?) I watched a film about the Arctic on a huge domed IMAX screen. The film was very good although I have seen so many Arctic documentaries that it is hard to cover new information. The top floor was probably the most interesting as it contained many, for want of a better word, toys that explained and demonstrated scientific principles. I got to lie on a bed of nails, fire an air cannon at targets, carry and centrifugally-charged briefcase, and crush cans with an industrial-sized machine.
Funtime was over however and I walked down to the Greyhound station, ready to travel on the 16 hour journey across the South to NOLA. Although the journey was not as bad as the time would suggest, it was not very comfortable waiting for an hour in the Greyhound station in Atlanta surrounded by some questionable characters. The biggest disappointment was that when driving through Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, it was pitch-black outside and I could not take in that Deep South scenery. For those of you who are aware of the works of Dylan will be excited to know that I was indeed 'Stuck (for an hour) Inside of Mobile'.
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