We pulled into Stone Mountain Park Campground outside of Atlanta. We were staying for a week because we planned on flying up to Chicago for two bridal showers. I booked a lower end site due to the fact that we would be gone for about half of the stay. That was a big mistake. The cheaper sites were not level at all. We tried moving about the site and upon leveling we got the “Excessive Slope” alert. Decided to go back to the office and see if they had another site. They did – more expensive, but we took it.
Got all set up and took the dogs for a walk. When we returned, we felt the Busse Bus was leaning to one corner. Reset the levelers. About 1/2 hour later, we felt atilt again. The next morning we called Newmar and they suggested that we take our rig to the nearest dealer – National Indoor RV Centers (NIRVC). We made an appointment and cancelled the rest of our stay at the campground, but before we left we biked over to Stone Mountain Park to see the carving:
That depicts the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The carving measures 90 by 190 feet and it is recessed up to 42 feet into the mountain. The carving was started in 1916, had funding problems during the wars and in 1958 Georgia purchased the property and the re-started the carving in 1963. Final touches were completed in 1972.
The recent Politically Correct movement is trying to blast the craving off the side of the mountain as Confederacy is a mar on our past. I say, if we destroy all negative landmarks of a country’s past we may repeat them. In talking with a stranger in the parking lot, he offered this “Why not carve a monument of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. next to this one?” Sounds like a reasonable solution to me!
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