July 4, 2014
Ivy Acres RV Park
Piedmont, South Carolina
Today we left Atlanta along with a lot of other people. I wonder where everyone was going for the holiday week-end.
We stopped in Athens, GA to see this unusual piece of weaponry.
The designer was a member of the local Confederate Home Guard and he thought that firing two cannonballs with a chain attached between them would prove to be a formidable weapon against the Yankees. Unfortunately all did not go as planned and the enemy was not mowed down by this revolutionary cannon. Instead the chain broke causing each cannon ball to have a rather erratic path resulting in the people behind the cannon being in as must danger as the enemy in front of the cannon. The cannon was abandoned shortly after is debut.
We are staying just a couple of miles from the town of Greenville, South Carolina. After we set up the camper we went into town to the 4th of July celebration. There was a street fair and concerts but most of the people were in the park by the river and waterfalls.
The Liberty Bridge is a tall semi-circular pedestrian bridge over the river and falls.
We were walking down this stone path when Dave stumbled and almost fell off the step. A snake decided to cross the path right in front of him.
He was so flustered that by the time he composed himself he only got a photo of the last couple of inches as the snake slithered under the bushes.
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