Here you'll find family vacation ideas for Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington D.C., Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Nine hundred cousins and kin at the family reunion! That’s what Jack Hadley told me in Thomasville, Georgia about last year’s gathering. Remarkable as that is, even richer are his accounts of the connections among those cousins and the heritage of hunting plantations in the south.
When visiting Centennial Park in Atlanta, Georgia nowadays, it is hard to believe that, according to the park's history, fewer than 20 years ago the neighborhood was in a run-down part of town. The area was turned into a beautiful park in honor of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games and is still a place to gather with friends, go for a walk or let the kids run and play. During our weekend getaway to Atlanta, we spent a lot of time wandering around Centennial Park.
We were based at the Comfort Suites hotel during our visit of Tallahassee. We came in on a Sunday afternoon. That’s important information because a home football game was played Saturday at FSU. That meant we would have had a really tough time finding a place to stay. In fact, when we checked in, the front desk attendant told us there were 63 rooms in the hotel. He had 62 people check out that morning. Imagine that kind of turnaround! And you can bet every other hotel had a similar story.
Embrace slow food in Louisiana on the Boudin Trail with road food and local eating in casual places. Don’t dress up for this culinary delight; settle in to Lake Charles in Southwest Louisiana and follow the trail involving Interstate 10 and state highway 90.
Tallahassee is probably most well known as the capitol of Florida and the home of Florida State University (as well as Florida A & M University, famous for its marching band). The Seminoles have a gorgeous campus and amazing sports facility, updated quite a bit in the two decades since I’d been to the school as a visitor during a Florida/Florida State football game (FSU won, and went on to win a couple national titles in the years since, much to the dismay of this Florida Alum).
The Florida Historic Capitol Museum in Tallahasee tour is as much about the politics of the state through the years is at is about the capitol building. You see, the capitol building in Florida has evolved through time, and what you see from South Monroe Street is not at all what you see from the back side of the building, on South Duval. That’s because the building on South Monroe has changed through time. It wasn’t even the original, though. The first was actually a couple log buildings. What you see now from Duval is where the nitty-gritty of state lawmaking is taken care of. What you see from Monroe is a beautiful tribute to the past.
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