Tag: Southeast
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Visiting the Shiloh National Military Park {Tennessee}
Living in Tennessee has given us a unique experience of really delving into the history of the American Civil War as we are right on the dividing line of the two ideologies of that time. There are so many Civil War sites close to us and the more we visit them the more we learn…
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Along the Natchez Trace Parkway {Tennessee}
This last weekend took us along the Tennessee part of the Natchez Trace Parkway. This parkway is a 444 mile stretch that begins up around Nashville and continues down through Mississippi. The Natchez Trace is a parkway built to follow an old trail that has been used for centuries by first the Native Americans and…
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Stoney Paths of Rock City Gardens {Georgia}
Spring has sprung which means you can usually find us out walking somewhere finding blue skies and fresh air. And with the flowers starting to pop out of the ground, we decided that the best place to enjoy all of this springtime happiness was at Rock City Gardens. We have been to Rock City a…
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Experiencing the Immersive Van Gogh {Tennessee}
It was summertime last year when I first started seeing the advertisements for the Immersive Van Gogh experience. I looked when to see it would come to Nashville and was happy to see that tickets were open and the exhibit would begin a few months later. So I ordered tickets for December thinking that would…
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Stairs to the Top- Chimney Rock State Park {North Carolina}
Our last morning in Asheville and we were getting ready to leave for home. We had experienced the lively downtown area of Asheville but felt we couldn’t leave without seeing some of the beautiful natural areas outside the city. Brad’s aunt suggested a visit to Chimney Rock State Park which is a local favorite for…
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Walking Asheville’s Urban Trail {North Carolina}
This last weekend took us to the foothills of the mountains of North Carolina. We spent a few hours in downtown Asheville taking what has come to be known as the ‘Urban Trail’. This trail takes visitors along through the streets of the artsy, eclectic area of downtown with a lot of interesting shops and…
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Seeing Stars at the Country Music Hall of Fame {Tennessee}
I have a pretty cool job. I work for a university in their international affairs department and part of my job is planning events and activities for international students. And this last weekend the event that I got to take them on was a tour of Nashville. We started the day with all the usual…
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Sand traps & Jellyfish on the Gulf Island Seashore {Florida}
It was our last morning and we were looking at a day of driving to get back home. Alabama had proved a fun weekend and we were hesitant to have it end. We were following our route from the last few day on a map of the Mobile Bay and Brad points to a spot…
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Down By the Mobile Bay {Alabama}
We spent a couple of days enjoying the Mobile Bay. If you look at a map of Alabama, the Mobile Bay is the upside down V in the tail of the state. Just past the bay is the Gulf of Mexico. This entire area is a little known paradise that offers the beach life of…
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Mardi Gras in Mobile {Alabama}
We spent the weekend down in Mobile (pronouned Mo-Beel) and happened to be there for the great time of Mardi Gras. If you going to do Mardi Gras than the best place to be is here because this is where Mardi Gras started. While many assume that Mardi Gras first started in the streets of…