Last weekend, I had to get out of Knoxville for a day. It's been more than a month that I've been in a different place. Chattanooga is a 90 miles ride away from Knoxville right at the border between Tennessee and Georgia.
We found a park deck to leave our car and get a first impression of what the city looks like.
(As the cityscape itself is not too exciting, I thought I might start experimenting with b&w a bit^^)
On the first view, some places look a bit shady, like this old house that (in it's better times) reminded guests of the Ruby Falls, which are below the Lookout Mountain in the back of the picture.
Also interesting to see was this former train station. The station was operated by Southern Railways and served the first train connecting Cincinnati in the north with Chattanooga in the south. It has been turned into a convention center, including restaurants and shops. One of the attractions is to spend the night...
... in an old train that was turned into a hotel.
We walked downtown, reaching for the art museum. On the way we saw this fellow playing Bob Marley songs in the warm sun.
Before reaching the museum, we passed by the aquarium and came to the Tennessee river. It seems that not only Dresden has it's blue wonder ^^ The plain-like statue in the front is part of a city-wide art exhibition and can be bought afterwards (no price tag found, though).
High five ^^
Finally, the art museum (as seen from the riverside, quite impressive)...
... and from the front, with a translucent leading the guest over a street (some found this to be quite scary).
The first impressive sculpture right in front of the museum. It is left as an exercise to the reader to determine the subject of this social-critical masterpiece.
Also interesting was this horse. What looks like wood is actually bronze, I couldn't have told the difference.
This one was kind of scary, situated in the middle of a huge empty space with worn-down houses surrounding it. The art museum itself was impressive, with astonishing paperweights of Paul Stankard and landscape art from the last two centuries. One interesting artist was Diane Rosenblum, who posted pictures of clouds on Facebook and collected the comments. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take pictures (and the ones taken in the rest of the museum turned out to be not too exciting).
We ended our time in Chattanooga with a visit to lookout mountain (see above), enjoying this great view...
... and finally seeing the incline train coming up.
The day ended in a small private college, more on that later...
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