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After the short but welcome hike, Jayne and Dan treated me to a nice dinner at the local brew pub. I had the Go Bleu! burger with a pint of Cherry Limeade, a sour Berliner Weisse. Good stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
April 13<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I asked Jayne what she had going on today and when she said \u201cnothing\u201d, I suggested we go visit the Jimmy Carter Museum and Library. She was up for it, so off we went. It was rainy and a bit dreary, but that\u2019s not a bad sort of day to wander through a museum. At least I get to hit one of my Atlanta targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the third presidential museum I’ve visited. This one was a different experience for me for a few reasons. Both Hoover and Truman were before my time, and I\u2019ve read whole-life biographies of both of them. I haven\u2019t gotten to read a Carter bio yet, but even if I wasn\u2019t quite an adult when he was elected, I remember most of the events that are chronicled by the exhibits while I don\u2019t have much of an idea about Carter\u2019s life before the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hoover Museum lacks a reproduction of the oval office. Both Truman and Carter do have that room in their museums and I was a bit surprised at how different they are. Aside from the shape of the room and the fireplace, there was nothing that was the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The grounds of the museum and library are beautiful. It may have been a nice sort of day to wander a museum, but I\u2019d have liked to have taken a walk outside. Oh, and that\u2019s one more difference between this museum and the other two: Carter is still alive as I write this and so he isn\u2019t buried here (and I don\u2019t know whether he will be buried here in the end or not).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Carter’s Oval Office<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nTonight I had dinner with a few local Lotus folks. I had the pleasure of meeting Doug, Mick, and Bob. I had no idea when I suggested getting together for dinner that I\u2019d be visiting with a couple of Lotus Ltd bigwigs! We shared a number of war stories. There was also a bit of discussion of this year’s LOG in Knoxville. It sounded almost as if Doug was trying to talk me into making another trip this way in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had the filet mignon with a loaded baked potato, a side salad, and a large Sam Adams beer. The rest of the trip will be more Subway and Wendy\u2019s than brew pubs and steakhouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I reached out to the folks at Chin Track Days to cancel my entry at Barber and also canceled my reservation at the motel near the track. After checking out the weather report for the next few days, I\u2019ve decided to leave here Saturday morning for a two-day Rule #1 violation and skedaddle on home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not knowing what\u2019s causing the fuse to blow, I\u2019m a bit concerned that I might possibly be doing some damage to the motor. My other obvious choices are to leave the car here at the Lotus dealer for them to fix (necessitating a round-trip flight), have the car shipped home, or rent a U-Haul to tow it home. I made a half-hearted search for someone to ship it but didn\u2019t find anybody that went from here to there. I\u2019m not at all enamored with the U-Haul option, and, frankly, I\u2019d rather have the work done by someone who has worked on my car before and who is local to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomorrow I should stop by an auto parts store and get some more spare fuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
April 14<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Today was pretty much a \u201czero\u201d day. I went nowhere, did nothing. Well, I did make it to the auto parts store for spare fuses. I did a little planning for the trip home: where to spend the night, whether to try to shoehorn in a visit to the Eisenhower Museum or not. Oh, and Jayne and Dan and I went out to eat at a Mexican place. I had some enchiladas and a beer at the CT Cantina & Taqueria. The enchiladas were quite tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working on the assumption that I would, indeed, make it home sometime on Sunday, I made an appointment to get the car fixed. My man Ryan says he\u2019s \u201cexcited to look at it and hopefully, it will be a quick turnaround!\u201d I love his confidence! I gather that he\u2019s booked up until June and he\u2019s doing me a big solid by squeezing me in. He says he’s going to work evenings. I have no idea what I\u2019ve done to deserve the special treatment, but it\u2019s much appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"