Grand Canyon etc. Day 12: Las Vegas ✈️ Atlanta
No need for a full recap today. We woke up super early and flew back home, exhausted!
Grand Canyon etc. Day 12: Las Vegas ✈️ Atlanta
No need for a full recap today. We woke up super early and flew back home, exhausted!
Today was the start of our family “Grand Canyon etc.” trip. We flew from Atlanta to Las Vegas and then drove to Springdale, UT.
Amtrak has signaled interest in recent years to reestablish Atlanta as a true railroad hub, with an octopus of routes to Charlotte, Nashville, Macon, Montgomery, Birmingham, Savannah, and other cities.
I would _love_ to see better Amtrak service in Atlanta
As bad as our country's overall gun violence problem is, Georgia’s gun violence problem is somehow still significantly worse. Georgia’s death rate by firearms—a stat that combines murders, accidents, and suicide—is 38% higher than the national average.
Andisheh goes hard against guns, and I’m here for it
King also attached his six principles of non-violence to the idea along with the addition of what he called the “three evils”—poverty, racism, and militarism. Those three evils are present and thriving in modern day Atlanta…