11:05 AM - 11:30 AM After putting on my new raincoat (I had bought it before I left home, but had never used it), I went inside the MARTA station. Bought 4 tokens. Then went on my first subway ride since leaving Bombay ten years ago. The trains were the same as in Bombay -- dirty and WET. But they were not too crowded -- probably because this was a rainy Saturday. There were a lot of empty seats, but I was still standing for the entire ride -- the seats were wet because some IDIOT had left the windows open overnight and the rain came in through the windows! What kind of an idiot would do such a thing?

12:30 PM Arrived at "World of Coca-Cola". . The museum was very impressive. As soon as I entered, I saw the Coca-Cola bottling process simulated in a large model "factory". Then there were all the historical memorabilia of Coca-Cola products sold all over the world. Saw some short films about the rapid popularity growth of the drink and the "Hollywoodizing" of the drink. There was one entire corridor where the flags of all countries where Coca-Cola products are sold were displayed. But I had not even been to the BEST part of the museum. In the very end, I came to a room with eight very interesting fountains. The point was to drink as much of and as many Coca-Cola products that you wanted! They were all there. Free. Besides those eight "interesting" fountains, there were also 16 more "regular" drink-dispensers in that room. In another adjoining room, there were 36 more regular drink dispensers. The first room had drinks sold worldwide. The second room had drinks sold in all countries around the world EXCEPT the United States. A lot of the drinks were repeated. There were a total of 39 flavors of Coca-Cola drinks in 60 total dispensers. I had all 39 drinks from all 60 dispensers. Then I went back and had some of the drinks that I especially liked. Finally, I tried different combinations of several drinks, including one mixture of all 18 internationally sold Coca-Cola drinks (That mixture tasted a lot like apple juice and soda, with a slight orange and lemon taste! It was nice!).

Then I went to the restroom.

All the drinks that I had were from the same glass. At that time, it was my intention to keep that glass as a souvenir. I still have that glass today.

All 39 flavors of Coca-Cola Drinks that I tasted:

At fountains (I would put my glass under the nozzle, there would be a strange "churning" sound, then the drink would fly out from a central tank [about 10 feet away] and fall directly into the glass!):	Minute Maid Orange Soda Coca Cola Classic (2 fountains) Coke II diet Coke Caffeine-free Diet Coke Sprite (2 fountains)
Other drinks in first room:	Tab Olympade diet Minute Maid Orange Soda Fanta Birch Beer Nestea Peach Flavored Sweetened Mello Yello PowerAde Lemon-Lime Sports Drink Fanta Grape Fanta Red Fresca Fanta Strawberry Caffeine-free Coca Cola Classic Cherry Coke Mr. Pibb Ramblin' Root Beer
In second room -- drinks sold in all countries except this one (two dispensers each -- I had the same drink from both dispensers -- for all of these. Then tried one mixture of a little bit each from all these drinks):	Fanta Peach (Canada) Vegina Beta (Japan) Mezzo Mix (Germany) Fanta Mango (Germany) Fanta Colita (Costa Rica) Guaraná Tai (Brazil) Fanta Orange (China) Fanta Exotique (France) Beverly analcolico apertivo (Italy) Fanta Tropical (Kenya) Fanta Florida (Morocco) krest Ginger Ale (Thailand) Fanta Fruit Punch (Central American countries) Mone Honey & Lemon (Japan) Lilt (Great Britain) lychee mello (Thailand) Simba Piña (Paraguay) Kinley (Israel)

If you were counting, that is only 59 dispensers. I had mentioned there were 60. The last one had water -- and I drank that too!

I left "The World of Coca-Cola" at 1:30 PM, then went to "Underground Atlanta". Not the subway, but an entire city under the ground -- shops and restaurants. And people. A lot of people. It was raining on the ground above, so everyone was down here. I went to the MARTA "Five Points" station. Took the train to "Omni" station.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM At CNN Center. . Took off my raincoat before entering. I have never worn it since then! CNN's slogan is,

"When News Happens, You See It Happen". And I saw it happen. The happening news this time was what happened in Oklahoma City a few days ago. Because of that, there were a lot of things happening in the CNN news room, which was a pretty happenin' kinda place. Rain was happening all day, but I was inside, so it didn't happen on me.

[The above paragraph is directly from a postcard I sent to Perry. I think that just about describes what CNN Center was like.]

I left the CNN Center at 4:00 PM, bought a MARTA "Weekend Pass", then took the train (free this time because of the pass) back to Five Points and Underground Atlanta. Bought some Atlanta souvenirs there. Also bought four personalized, engraved key chains on miniature California and New Jersey license plates. After that, I took subway rides everywhere around Atlanta, simply because they were now free. I got back to the car just before sunset, then drove around Atlanta, simply because I had nothing else to do. At 9:00 PM, I went inside a "Target" and gave two more film rolls for developing, then bought six more rolls.

11:00 PM Checked in at Howard Johnson Inn at Cartersville, GA.

Expenses:

$39.55	Chase	Days Inn	Acworth, GA
$11.50	CB	Gas	Acworth, GA
$5	Cash	Four MARTA tokens	Atlanta, GA
$2	Cash	Admission -- The World of Coca-Cola	Atlanta, GA
$38.16	CB	Souvenirs -- Underground Atlanta: Two "Olympic Games" T-shirts; key chain, bumper sticker	Atlanta, GA
$7	Cash	Admission -- CNN Center	Atlanta, GA
$5	Cash	MARTA Weekend Pass	Atlanta, GA
$14	Cash	Souvenir key chains for Rajeev, Shekhar, Sachin, & Shilpa (their names on miniature CA/NJ license plates) -- at Underground Atlanta	Atlanta, GA
$1	Cash	postcard -- Underground Atlanta	Atlanta, GA
$21.40	Discover	Six rolls of 400-speed film -- Target	Atlanta, GA

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