Hi. I'm in Atlanta.

The trip went well. The plane arrived in Atlanta 20 minutes early. I had to be strip-searched at the Salt Lake Airport (stripped of my shoes and belt, anyway) and had to deal with the embarrassing experience of having that wand thing go off over my, uhm, button snap on my jeans.

The in-flight movie was “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” which I watched an hour or so of before I got sick of it and listened to music instead.

After getting to the Atlanta airport, I fetch my suitcase and found the car rental desk. They set me up with a compact car (which turned out to be a white Dodge Neon that reeks of cigarettes) and told me where to go to catch the shuttle bus to the car lot.

The car lot was about a mile or so from the airport and the directions I had to the hotel were from the airport. So, I had to figure out how to get back to the airport and then follow the directions to find my way to the hotel. The hotel is in Alphretta, George which is about 20-30 miles north of the airport. The journey took me past downtown Atlanta and onto a toll road. I had a ten dollar bill handy for the toll, but it was only $0.50.

The weather here is fine. Probably 55 to 60 degrees outside. It feels a tad bit colder because of the humidity, but I saw some bugs flying around when I got my luggage out of the car, so it's not that cold.

Obviously, with it being night and all, I can't really comment on how Georgia looks. All I can say is that there are a lot of trees. Who knows? Maybe they aren't trees at all. I'll get back to that in the morning.

The (sweaty) Doran in Georgia

I'm staying at the Courtyard in Alphretta on Deerfield Parkway. High speed Internet access is complimentary and there's a complimentary breakfast as well. We'll see how that goes.

The Internet access is working well and set itself up well. I just had to configure my Linux laptop to get an IP address via DHCP and then try to browse the web. Doing that redirected me to a private website that thanked me for using the Internet access, made me agree to some user agreement, and then I was allowed to do what I needed to do (i.e. ssh).

I'm starving. I'm going to go see if I can find something to eat before I head to bed.