Choo Choo

The last leg of the tour went from Nashville to Atlanta Airport with a lunch stop at the famous Chattanooga Choo Choo Terminal Station. This is the train made famous by the Glenn Miller song. So the train is on display at the end of Track 29 just as it's supposed to be. Everyone took pictures of the choo choo. The guide books recommend visitors take a ride on the trolly that goes around the Terminal Station complex. We see the authentic-looking yellow electric trolly car, we each buy a two-dollar ticket and we excitedly que up for the ride, expecting an interesting and scenic tour of days gone by. What we got was a a 7-mile-an-hour bumpy clickity-clackity-clunkity ride on a horseshoe shaped track that circumnavigated the parking lot. Every 30 or 40 yards the "conductor" would point to a place on the pavement where a train-related artifact used to be. When we got to the end of the horseshoe the "engineer" moved to the back of the car, told us to push the backs of our seats to the front of the seat and sit on the other side. Then we traveled in the reverse direction to the beginning of the track where we started! When we reversed our seats everyone was hysterical at how absurd this tour was, and from that point on it was nothing but raucus and rowdy laughter and wisecracking with "Mrs.P" as the loudest and rowdiest ringleader. She kept shouting..."It's a tour of the bloody car-park!" It was truly the silliest and funniest experience of the whole week-even funnier than her getting peed on by an aligator. By the time the "tour" was over we were literally weak with laughter. At least it was cheap!