Georgia and Alabama

DamoNorthStand

Following on from the Tennessee post, we are ticking Georgia and Alabama off our list this July. Son is a massive Stranger Things fan so are staying at the Byers house and seeing some of the sights:

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/1208099346656057205?source_impression_id=p3_1747682933_P3mccTcFwQbHF5LT

But I am not after a whole holiday of that, so any advice for good things to do around the two states gratefully received. We have a car so it’s a proper road trip. Happy to see things off the beaten track.

cafcfan

Alabama has a great music legacy. So towns like Florence/Muscle Shoals are worth a look if you are interested in blues music at all. 
Also down south in Mobile is the USS Alabama Park which is interesting. 
I didn't get on very well with large parts of Georgia. It's a bit sad and run-down with a seemingly never-ending stream of trailer parks and pick-up trucks without wheels.  But Jekyll Island, with its winter homes of the rich, like the Rockefeller Cottage is worth a look if you are close. 

Also just across the border into Florida (a bit most tourists don't get to because it's too far north) is the lovely city of St Augustine - which is probably the oldest city built by Europeans in the US and it shows. It's one of the few places in the USA that actually looks (to Old World eyes) to have old architecture.

Dave2l

That sounds great.

I know New Orleans has a French culture and I'd like to go there myself 

se9addick

Dave2l said:

That sounds great.

I know New Orleans has a French culture and I'd like to go there myself 

New Orleans is amazing. 

redlanered

DamoNorthStand said:

Following on from the Tennessee post, we are ticking Georgia and Alabama off our list this July. Son is a massive Stranger Things fan so are staying at the Byers house and seeing some of the sights:

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/1208099346656057205?source_impression_id=p3_1747682933_P3mccTcFwQbHF5LT

But I am not after a whole holiday of that, so any advice for good things to do around the two states gratefully received. We have a car so it’s a proper road trip. Happy to see things off the beaten track.

You've probably got Savannah on your Georgia list, but Charleston is a fantastic place a couple of hours over the border in S Carolina

DamoNorthStand

Done Charleston a few years ago, but yes Savannah is on our list.

Also going down into Florida and have St Augustine on the list.

Valiantphil

Thought this thread was going to be about Beckham’s new kids. 

😀

The Red Robin

I quite liked Montgomery in Alabama. Not much there but not bad for a little pit stop. As others have said, have a look at crossing into Florida as well. 

AFKA Disco

I lived in Atlanta for 7 years and would really recommend it for a couple of days. Head to the Beltline for lovely inner city (but some how almost countryside walks) and an endless stream of breweries, restaurants and pubs. Downtown Atlanta has all of your tourist sights such as the huge Georgia Aquarium, the world of coke and the very interesting National Center for Civil and Human Rights. If your lucky you might even catch an Atlanta United game at the very impressive Mercedes Benz stadium