The Seeing Southern Travel Magazine
If travel is as important to your life as it is to ours, follow along and discover destinations that will awaken a new sense of discovery. Travel is transformative, illuminating, reviving. Through the stories that you’ll find here, we hope you uncover some locations that awaken a sense of awareness in you that you can’t shake.
Read the narrative. Make the plans. Book the dates. Go.
Featured Posts
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The Best of Seeing Southern
Many journeys change us. We hope you’ll find inspiration from these special experiences and destinations.
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Travel Resources
Where to Stay. What to Eat. What to Do. Our list of favorites in the US and around the world. Updating weekly.
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Uncovering the History of Rock City Barns
Join us as we spend 2024 researching and uncovering Rock City barn history.
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Shop Seeing Southern
Offering the best of our artwork and print materials plus other small businesses we’d love for you to support. Each has a story.
I’m always on the lookout for items that make travel easier and more efficient. I’m also eager to discover amenities at destinations that I can bring home and utilize in my daily life. Here’s a list of our favorites items, the best luggage, soothing lotions, inspirational books, and all things electronic (including cameras). Here’s our wish list for you.
A Conversation with Andrew McCarthy
A conversation with Andrew McCarthy. Advice for actors and travel writers.
Every One Has a Story
Everyone has a story. The inspirational tales told by storytellers. What’s yours?
A Passion for Greek Wine
During our last night at Danai Resort, we meet Apostolos Plahouras, head sommelier. As we walk with Plahouras through the unpretentious door into his cellar strategically located near each of the three restaurants, we feel the temperature immediately drop.
The Game in Westeros with Giant Tours Ireland
From Hodor to the Mountain, meet Flip Robinson who brings these characters to life. Visit Northern Ireland and see the GOT filming locations.
2018 Blind Willie McTell Festival
In a field near Thomson, Georgia, some of the best blues musicians gather the first weekend in May each year to pay homage to a legend, blues man Blind Willie McTell. As an accomplished guitarist - one who mastered the 12 string guitar and hailed from the tiny, central Georgia town, he never had a hit record or rose to the likes of B.B. King. However, artists like Jack White, the White Stripes, the Allman Brothers Band, Bob Dylan and others recognized his gift and his contribution to the world of blues.
The Love Story of Julia Nobles
She appreciated words. He fancied the TV Guide crossword puzzle. She treasured and hoarded chocolate. He showed off his baseball skills in the back yard with grandchildren. She worried more than she should. He leaned over for a kiss to comfort those worries. She loved him, and he loved her right back.
Brent Cobb and Them
There's something about a small rural town. it's very comforting to me. It's like knowing characters, like being on the Andy Griffith show. growing up and knowing these characters had a affect on the type of song I write. Everything comes from that same well of experience. ~Brent Cobb
10 years ago and he’s still climbing.
The Last Backyard Juke Joint in America
The last juke joint in America was in Bessemer, Alabama. Gip’s Joint no longer rocks to the music, but Gip’s legacy lives on.
Sunday School with Jimmy Carter | Why I Teach
We gathered in this one place, but we could not have been more different. An American president. A former Alabama governor. A Cambodian mail-order bride. A journalist.
Sunday School with Jimmy Carter | Why I Came
It was one of those things - those bucket list things - that you had to do. I hated that exhausted phrase, but for lack of a better one, this was one of those must-do bucket list entries. I'm not sure I was traveling to Plains for me or for my mama, who had loved Jimmy Carter with every ounce of her being. At 96, my mama had read ferociously, and she always had a diverse stack of material on her reading table - books she had read and ones coming up. And in that stack, always one by Jimmy Carter.
A Walk to Remember
We’ve watched in wonder and fright at Nik Wallenda does what few of mankind is capable of doing.
The Time I Sat Face to Face with Dolly
The time I was face-to-face with Dolly Parton at Dollywood.
Inside the home and the mind of Southern writer Flannery O'Connor. A visit to Andalusia as it celebrates her 100th birthday in 2025.