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.
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A Passion for Greek Wine
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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. 

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2018 Blind Willie McTell Festival
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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.

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The Love Story of Julia Nobles
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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.

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Brent Cobb and Them
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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.

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Sunday School with Jimmy Carter | Why I Came
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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.

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