by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I was just inside Georgia heading into Alabama. The name of the town was Rising Fawn, Georgia. A wonderful name. I had parked at a large church building and started walking my bicycle south through the town towards Alabama. On the far side of the road was what looked like a small restaurant named “The Depot Diner.” I didn’t see any railroad tracks, so I hadn’t a clue as to why it was called a depot, but whatever.<\/p>\n
Two hours later I returned to the church parking lot. I had walked five miles and ridden my bicycle five miles back. Into and out of Alabama. It was sunny; it was hot, and I was famished. I had not yet learned how to judge distance, time, and the nourishment required to cover the two. I went to the Depot Diner.<\/p>\n
The Depot Diner is one of those places that looks much bigger on the inside than on the outside. I think it was about 11:15 when I entered and sat. There were maybe five people present ahead of me eating. I ordered one of the daily specials: fried chicken, three vegetables, a roll, and a desert. $12 and well worth it.<\/p>\n
I loved the food. I loved the “sweet” iced tea. I loved the chance to sit for half an hour and refresh myself in the coolness of the place.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t the only one who liked the food at the Depot Diner. Thirty or forty people came in while I was eating. I had to look about to find where they were all sitting. It was<\/em> much bigger on the inside than it appeared on the outside.<\/p>\n According to the photos on the wall, a railroad once ran alongside this place. This building was the train depot for this town. I couldn’t learn how long ago that was.<\/p>\n The Depot Diner was one of the memorable stops on the walk. It refreshed me, body and soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I was just inside Georgia heading into Alabama. The name of the town was Rising Fawn, Georgia. A wonderful name. I had parked at a large church building and started walking my bicycle south through the town towards Alabama. On the far side of the road was what looked like a small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,68],"tags":[93,110],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama","category-georgia","tag-restaurants","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}