ATLANTA 2006 - Jim Colyer

Michael and I drove to Atlanta and back on January 10, 2006. We went straight to the Sun Trust Plaza. Sun Trust Bank started in Atlanta and has its corporate office there. We went to the top floor of the building. There seemed to be Sun Trust branches on every corner as we drove around town. Sun Trust is the 9th largest bank in the country, in 8 southern states and Washington, D.C. It has 1100 branches with assets of $88 billion and deposits of $55 billion. Michael and I talked about his job. He is thinking of working full time as a Financial Services Representative while Sun Trust pays toward his MBA. With his Master's, he can become an Investment Representative. I wanted this trip to be oriented toward Michael's career. We meant to get a hotel but started going from place to place and realized we could get everything in and be back in Nashville that night. We walked through town and spotted the CNN Center. We ate at Arby's inside. A guy in a shop told us Larry King did his show from New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Michael and I talked about Ted Turner. We crossed Centennial Olympic Park to the Georgia Aquarium. The aquarium opened in November and is the largest in the world. We saw thousands and thousands and thousands of fish. There were no great whites but there were whale sharks that get as long as school buses. We drove through the suberb of Buckhead before heading back up I-75 and I-24. We had a good time and a learning experience.