The morning of the Virginia Tech – Florida State game, we found ourselves with hours to kill. We had to check out by 11 am, and kickoff was scheduled for 8 pm. We grabbed breakfast at Cracker Barrel and looked for stores that we don’t have in Augusta. After a quick trip to World Market,…
Our final stop on our Georgia National Park Service day trip was Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. Jimmy Carter hails from Plains, Georgia, about a 30 minute drive from Andersonville. The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site includes Jimmy’s childhood home outside of town, their former high school in town, the historic district, a butterfly trail,…
Stop number two on our weekend road trip was Andersonville National Historic Site. Andersonville served as the site for the notorious Confederate prison Camp Sumter towards the end of the Civil War. The prison held around 45,000 men, while over 13,000 of them died. Address and Location You’ll find Andersonville National Historic Site at 760…
If you weren’t already aware, I am a big fan of National Park Service properties. I am also a proud holder of a National Park passport. So when we decided to go to Tallahassee over Labor Day, I scouted out what National Park properties were on the way. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park sits just…
I realized yesterday that I never put up our Georgia bucket list. When we moved to Colorado, I decided to make a bucket list of things to do while we lived there. Life happened (Mac was gone basically every month while I did my Master’s on the weekends), so we weren’t able to cross everything…
We headed out to our last stop during our weekend in Chattanooga: the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The Battle of Chickamauga was fought in 1863 and was the first battle in the state of Georgia. We started off at the smaller park on top of Lookout Mountain. Address and Location You’ll find Point…