It was now getting late in the day, and we lost an hour since we crossed back into the Eastern time zone so we decided we probably wouldn’t stop anymore and we would head straight for the hotel, which was north of Atlanta. It was late when we crossed into Georgia, just after 6, and we still had about a two hour drive in front of us. We figured we weren’t going to make the restaurant tonight so Chris started thinking of other possible options. The thought of a cold beer and a burger in the hotel room sounded nice, but then Chris remembered something he had seen on-line just a day or two before. Chris has a food-truck app on his phone and during the week, as we were trying to think of what to do in Atlanta, he checked to see where the food trucks were going to be in Atlanta and he stumbled across an article about a newly opened food truck park a few miles outside of the downtown area. The park had just opened sometime last week and every day from 11 AM to about 10 PM, a dozen or so food trucks gather to feed the masses. For those who are not familiar with food trucks, these are the mobile kitchens, or catering trucks, which are several steps above the roach coaches that you might find at construction sites. They essentially serve street food but the food is always a little better than typical street food that you might find at say the Cornbread Festival. They serve everything from Korean BBQ, to healthy wraps, to tacos, to sliders, to sweet potato fries; the list goes on and on. The food truck park ended up being only yards from the interstate. We were extremely lucky; we found a parking spot immediately as somebody was backing out. The person who pulled in just ahead of us circled around for about 5 minutes, and she was driving a mini-cooper of something similarly small that can squeeze in anywhere, not a beast like ours. There were somewhere between 8 and 10 food trucks there, and not as many people as we had expected. We immediately walked around the place trying to decide what to get. Our first stop was for sweet and spicy plantains from the Island BBQ truck. They were amazing. Then we walked over to the truck selling different kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches and bought a pimiento cheese sandwich. Next Jackie went over to the Blaxican truck (think Mexican with a southern twist) and bought some nachos with shredded steak tips on them and a collard greens quesadilla. We then went back to the grilled cheese truck and got another grilled cheese sandwich, this time smoked Gouda. We really loved this place and vowed to return, probably on Monday.
Pimiento cheese sandwich:
Some of the trucks:
Smoked Gouda cheese sandwich:
Collard greens quesadilla:
Finally, after a long day, we headed for the hotel, which was only a short half hour drive away.
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