3 States and 2 timezones at once

After leaving the treehouse we headed south, picking up two new counties (we have a lifelong goal of visiting every county in the USA…we have a little over 1400 of the 3200 counties so far).  We had intended on driving south on US127, which is also home to the world’s largest yard sale for a weekend in August (http://www.127sale.com/).  No yard sale today but while the speed limit was 55 and the drive was rural (no traffic lights) we had a slow person in front of us.  While the road was mostly straight we couldn’t pass.  So about halfway through the 60 or so miles we turned off and got back onto a two lane divided highway.  We were greeted almost right away by the Sequatchie Overlook, which overlooks the Sequatchie Valley, which we just minutes before were driving through.

By this time we were getting hungry.  Since it was now a little after 2 many of the roadfood places in Chattanooga were now closed so we went for fast food.  Not ordinary fast food, but Hardee’s, which is another great thing that they don’t have back home.  Hardee’s is a fast food chain found mostly in the south and Midwest.  They have some great burgers.  It isn’t like regular fast food, but seems to be of higher quality.  Jackie got a Southwestern jalapeno onion patty melt and Chris got a swiss & mushroom burger.  Both were really good.  We also got some Mello-Yello (mountain dew’s evil twin) and a cherry coke.

We then drove out of Chattanooga and then did something that you can only do in 7 other places in the USA.  We stood in 3 states and 2 time zones at the same time. 

We found out about this place because there was a geocache nearby.  It is down a single lane woods road that looks private but is public.  We parked at the end of the road at a cemetery and walked about 400 feet into the woods up a hill to the “3 corners” of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.  Since the Eastern/Central time zone also follows the GA/AL border, we were also in two time zones at once as well.  This was pretty cool.  Chris put his hand in all three states at once.