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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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.
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.
Freedom at the Georgia Wildlife Center
Welcome to the Center for Wildlife Education at Georgia Southern University. Come meet Freedom, the school’s mascot.
Georgia’s Rose Thomasville
Going strong for over 100 years, the Thomasville Rose Festival takes place each April in Thomasville, Ga.
A Colonel and a Governor: Hardman
Hardman Farm is Georgia's finest example of an intact working farm during the turn of the 20th century. The farmhouse has had three owners, the first and builder was Civil War Colonel James H. Nichols. It was called West End because of its location in the valley.
Six Hours in Flagstaff
It’s as must about the journey as the destination. Our ultimate destination, the Grand Canyon. Today, we take a stop in Flagstaff on our way to Williams.
What’s Old Is New Again in St. Augustine
Experience the oldest city in the United States - St. Augustine, Florida. Everything old is new again.
It’s Who We Are
Whether it's an inspirational message you seek, a good cry or a buoyant laugh, you will find it at The Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival or the International Storytelling Festival. Wherever tellers are gathered, you will discover the exact sentiment you seek . . . and quite possibly, the unexpected lessons of everyday life from people of all ages and backgrounds who are openly "trying to figure this world out."
5 Sea-Worthy Moments at The Craignair Inn
Between Rockland, Maine, and Marshall Point Lighthouse sits The Craignair Inn by the Sea in Spruce Head, Maine. The structure began in 1928 when it was built for workers at the nearby quarry on Clark Island. Converted into an inn in 1947, its charm and history lingers through the wooded floors, large gathering spaces, and two innkeepers - Greg and Lauren Soutiea - intent on keeping its history alive.
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.
Road Trippin’ to Key West
January is the ideal time to visit Key West. See it all without the heat of summer!
In the Hills of Clayton
There’s lots to do in the mountains of North Georgia, and Clayton welcomes you with beautiful scenery and some great eats.
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.
Living on ….ISH Time
Even on Sunday morning in a church down south, the melody of Amazing Grace never sounded so good. Each day, as the sails were hoisted and the spiritual anthem echoed throughout the ship, the S/V Mandalay prepared to sail. No matter where he was, each passenger made his way to the upper deck to watch six or more burly men pull and tug ropes until the nine (or less depending on wind need) sails stood at attention. We watched, head uplifted, mouth dropped in awe of the stamina and power it took to get the grand old lady under way. The melody proclaimed we were moving, to another island, to another port. We had no clue of the time of day, just the fact that in the middle of the Southern Caribbean, we were changing course and what would happen between now and then didn't even matter. We had wind whipping through our hair, a bloody mary in hand, and we were open to anything. We were living on . . . ish time.
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.
Seeing Grenada
Grenada stirs a wide range of senses within you. From a beautiful, lush rain forest to a dry, poor county to a teeming downtown mecca, it will amaze, delight, and concern you, all in one breath.
Top 5 on the South Carolina Pecan Trail
Pecans are the star of the South Carolina Pecan Trail. Here’s our 5 Top Places to stop along the trail to taste or shop for pecans.
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.
Pick Mercier Orchard
Mercier Orchard is a 4th generation family and veteran-owned and operated apple orchard founded back in 1943 by Bill and Adele Mercier. Located in Blue Ridge, Ga, Mercier Orchard offers a bite into Georgia agritourism.
Helen to the Atlantic
Helen to the Atlantic Hot Air Balloon Race takes place the first weekend in June each year.
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.
Yes, there are a multitude of ways to pack a suitcase. Find what works for you. Here are some tips that we have learned along the way that have made traveling a bit easier on the wallet and the back.