Well, it has been a long, fun week of visiting Ben's relatives down in Kennesaw, Georgia. We spent the majority of our time at the Rhoden/Prewett family compound, camped in the pool house loft on the Cadillac of all air mattresses. I'm talking double height, oxygen filled, grey suede heaven! We somehow managed to get a few adventures in even with all the eating and hanging out, including a full eighteen holes of disc golf at Oregon Park with cousin Witt and the dogs. When offered the opportunity to attend my but very first Talladega with Ben and a couple of his buddies from highschool, I jumped at my chance to get a "real" southern experience. While we didn't go to the actual race, we got in more than our fair share of people watching, and had a lot of fun playing cornhole and the like. One of the coolest things we did In Kennesaw was visiting The Southern Museum in downtown. It was chock full of civil war information and artifacts. We got a full sampling of photographs, guns, clothing, gear and letters from both the U.S. and the Confederate States. There was also a big section on Glover Industries, a large train builder and machine working company based out of Marietta, GA. And of course, the much loved General, one of the trains involved in The Great Locomotive Chase, was on display at the end of the museum. All in all it was a very cool little sampling of southern/Georgia history. Today, we left Georgia to delve deeper into the south. We are currently barreling through a corridor of scrubby pines and other sand-dwelling flora towards a beach in Santa Rosa, FL on the gulf of Mexico. We will spend another night amongst dunes on the Atlantic. Tomorrow we head to Biloxi, MS to visit Ben's step grandparents and another highschool buddy, then on to Louisiana and west! Looking forward to seeing more friendly faces in the near future!