Today we travelled back into Georgia to visit Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House. It was a warmer day, than we have had for a while. I'm now getting used to travelling on I-85. We arrived in good time. The entrance fee also gets us into the site of the hot baths. Roosevelt suffered from Polio, and was unable to walk, a number of the exhibits are about his disability, but I am getting ahead of myself. After we had paid for the tickets, we were ushered into the video, a short summary of the achievements of FDR. He was a remarkable man. In the museum we saw his calipers which he designed and the car he modified so that he could drive himself. There were all sorts of personal items, records of his achievements, and details of his staff and their loyalty. The best thing though was visiting the house itself, with security booths and floodlights around it. The house is small, and basic (even for its time), and shows how people lived halfway through the last century. Well worth a visit. From there we went to the 'warm springs'. Here is where the victims of polio came to improve their mobility and strengthen their muscles. There are pictures of FDR playing in the waters with children. This president seems to have been loved by the people of the time. He died of a brain haemorrhage while still in office, and the American people grieved for him. FDR was responsible for bringing America out of the depression and almost all the way through WWII. He was also responsible for the polio vaccine, which was finally approved for use after his death and means that polio only affects a couple of hundred children a year.
We went into Warm Springs and found the only open restaurant, they had almost sold out of food, but we got barbecue in a bun and some lemonade.
We then returned to Auburn, where I got my Christmas present - a Samsung Tab2. In the evening we went to Niffers for a meal. Here we found that American service is not always so great. The food though was good.
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