Tag: Southbound

When you live in landlocked Tennessee, taking small children to the beach is kind of like childbirth: long and painful at times, but ultimately worth it. Eventually, you wind up forgetting the hard parts and want to do it all over again. After eight-plus hours in a car bound for Amelia Island, Florida, I wasn’t so sure that was going to happen this time.

On Jekyll Island, Georgia, the glittering era has been carefully preserved in numerous historical structures, most notably the Jekyll Island Club Hotel.

When I consider all the hours I spend in traffic, it’s downright distressing. That’s why, when it comes to vacations, I opt to go somewhere serene and congestion-free—somewhere like Bald Head Island.

My kids are three and five. Because they are three and five, we do not frequent Ritz-Carlton hotels. My kids are professional spillers. They don’t...

Trade run-of-the-mill museums for these offbeat attractions.

As a city dweller, my idea of an escape usually involves a destination far from mass civilization: Take me to a secluded beach or give...

Just twenty miles south of Nashville, Franklin is an oasis for some of country’s biggest stars (Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, and Keith Urban all have homes here). Yet it has managed to retain its charm, with the National Register of Historic Places naming its main thoroughfare a “Great American Main Street.”

The mountains of north Georgia were the site of America’s first major gold strike. Today, people continue to be drawn to the Southern Appalachians, as the mountains offer up new riches.

While the city has mandatory tourist stops (the famed Bellingrath Gardens, the battleship USS Alabama, and the new-and-spectacular GulfQuest museum), to understand the city, you must visit its neighborhoods.

Chefs John Currence, Hugh Acheson, Sean Brock, Sue Zemanick, and John Fleer tell us why their favorite off-the-grid locales keep them coming back for more.