Yesterday I saw more of Atlanta than anticipated, courtesy of a cab driver who didn't know as much of Atlanta as anticipated. The eHarlequin luncheon was held at a fine restaurant--whose name, forgive me, escapes my conference-fogged brain--in the Buckhead area. 3 cabs left the hotel on the 20 minute trip; only 2 arrived. The third--ours--went...how should I say this...elsewhere. Apparently the loonnnngggg road in the restaurant's address is crossed/divided into several segments by freeways. Our driver chose the wrong option.
On the one hand, it took him ten minutes to recognize he wasn't finding the right number and a further twenty minutes backtracking to find the right number. On the other hand, we saw some of Atlanta's poshest addresses on our side trip, glorious southern-style mansions in huge manicured and thickly treed gardens, which we would otherwise not have seen.
Lunch--shrimp gumbo on a bed of cheese grits--and a desserts tray I cannot find words to describe (photos were taken) made the looonnnngggg trip worthwhile.
posted by Bronwyn Jameson @ 4:28 AM
