In the hotel’s breakfast I met a new friend from Honduras. She had a situation with her return back to Honduras being stuck in Atlanta for two days. We decided to go to the Acuarium and surrounding areas.

To move to the city we did exactly what I did the day before. We took the complimentary hotel’s shuttle to the airport to take there the train/subway to downtown. The subway company’s name is MARTA and we bought the tickets in machines next to the subway entrance. The price was 1.75 per ride plus the ticket (50 cents).

In few minutes the train arrived to Five Points station where I had a not nice experience the day before. We stepped out on the next station: N1. From there we walked randomly finding the acuarium, the Olimpic Park and the CNN headquarters. We did not go to the acuarium because it was crowded and the time was short.

From the Olimpic Park we walked to the Georgia Dome. It reminded me the Dome in New Orleans where thousands of people were tragically locked after Hurricane Katrina. The stories of the dome survivers are more than scary and should make us to evaluate the efficiency to respond to disasters from our goverments, as well as their hidden agendas. Why the U.S. government did not respond fast to that emergency?

From the Dome we took the eastbound subway one stop to Five Points where we took the southbound train to the airport.

Waiting for the hotel’s shuttle somebody came to us, very well dressed and with a fun/merry attitude saying the airline lost his luggage and his carry-on. In my mind the big question was how can the airline loose your carry-on?

He was talking to us and he had one hand in one of his pocket’s pants, making me aware, specially when he was becoming closer to us, thinking that at some point he was going to say “give me your cash, I have a gun/knife/whatever in my pocket”.

Actually the hotel’s shuttles parking area was a really dumb place for something like this but just in case I stood up walking around him taking some distance and position ready to respond agaist a possible robbery.

The guy changed his style when I moved and asked me directly “do you have any U.S. money” and my answer was the same for this cases. With a smile I told him “with just credit cards these days who have cash?”

The guy left going to talk with other people. I guess he was a more syled begger different than the ones I saw in Atlanta’s downtown the day before.

All can I say is it is pretty sad the poverty situation in Atlanta and this guy reminded me when somebody was trying to steal my bag inside the Tica Bus office in San Jose, Costa Rica.

I arrived on time to Vienna. The airport in Vienna was totally packed but the migration process was so incredible fast that I can say that I passed the xrays and the passport checking in less time than crossing just the metal detector in any US airport.

The airport had free WiFi and using Couchsurfing.com I sent some requests looking for a place to stay in Krakow for 3 days arriving on Tuesday or Wednesday.