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Published: July 26th 2010
Habitat for Humanity
Touring HFH Global Village Discovery CenterNamaste!!!
In order to do a little blog practice AND get even more prepared for our upcoming Habitat trip to Nepal, we (Kathy, Rob, Mike, Syd, Kim) took a weekend jaunt to Americus Georgia to see the Habitat for Humanity Global Discovery Center. It began with a Tour de Slums showing impoverished dwellings (i.e rusted tin, mats of floor, pretty much gloom, doom, and filth) followed by 15 lifesize examples of houses built around the world by Habitat for Humanity GLobal Village - Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana to name a few. HFH dwellings are small, but sturdy, clean and homey. After a hot and humid visit to Americus, we headed down the road to Plains, GA for a festival and some fabulous peanut-butter ice cream, missed Jimmy and Roz Carter "by that much" as they were at the Italian Ice stand just before us. Then back to Atlanta where we saw World of Coke (an everything-you-wanted-to-know about Coke museum followed by all the free Coke products you can gulp flowing out of stations), the Aquarium and CNN tour. A behind the scenes tour at CNN was great - we saw anchor Fredricka Whitfield last minute primping before going on
air. We also did a little stop at Andersonville, GA which is the site of a Civil War POW Camp and now museum. Amazing amount of Civil War POW's kept in a tiny plot of land.
Great trip!!! Highly recommend it all!!! Now on to more Nepal planning......
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