IKEA Weekend Adventure?
This past weekend I had the semi-unpleasant experience to drive from the mountains down toward the collapsed bridge on Interstate 85 at Piedmont Road. I was headed to the IKEA store off I-85 at Fourteenth Street. I started seeing the warning signs for the Interstate closure about ten miles north of the shut-down exit so I decided to get off in my old stomping grounds of North Druid Hills Road, go by my old high school and see what changes to the area over the last twenty years I was away in Alaska. Traffic was horrible as everyone was trying to find a way to get around the closed area. Stopped bumper to bumper vehicles with an exit time of twenty minutes to get off the ramp made me remember why I left Atlanta so many years ago. I cannot stand the traffic or the totally bent drivers trying to get in front of everyone. Driving by the school I saw many changes. The sign our class erected was gone and like many schools across America was run down and looked like it needed a ma
