One of the great benefits of being teacher is the time off. Although many of us spend our breaks keeping up our credentials and taking classes, the time away from students can help re-energize us and give us the time to actually get caught up on a little thing called life.
As is custom, I am hitting the road once again and using my trip home to Arkansas to see my dad as sort of another way of getting to see the history of our land. Just mere blocks from my hotel in Atlanta is the Gone with the Wind Museum! Well, that actually might be one to skip. I cannot even begin to imagine what they probably have in that place.
On the agenda for this journey is a visit to the Chickamauga Battlefield. Although I have passed by it a number of times, I have never actually stopped there. In recently digging up some information about my family history, I discovered that my great great great grandfather visited the site right after the battle and was horrified by the sight of the bloated corpses being ripped apart by wild dogs. It led him to a lifelong stance of pacifism which was passed down to multiple family members and even is present today.
I'm not really sure where the rest of my trip will take me but it is always interesting to see what I can find.
