Read more about the article Paris Mountain State Park – Greenville, SC

Paris Mountain State Park – Greenville, SC

We made a quick visit to Greenville, South Carolina, recently. Since it’s only a two-hour drive from Atlanta, Greenville is an easy day trip or a good halfway point stop on the way to Charlotte.

Plus Greenville is fun to visit any time of year. A major highlight is Falls Park on the Reedy, right in the middle of downtown. Visitors can explore both sides of the Reedy River on the Liberty Bridge. Spanning 345 feet, the single cable suspension bridge provides unobstructed views of the falls.

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Read more about the article Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park – Macon, GA

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park – Macon, GA

While on our way to Thing 1’s graduation from Flagler College in St. Augustine, we made a stop at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon. We had taken our daughters to the historic park about ten years ago, but I wanted to spend more time and visit the museum.

Plans are underway to make Ocmulgee Mounds the first National Park in Georgia. With the recent purchase of over 800 acres in Twiggs County, the creation of Ocmulgee National Park is a possibility in the near future.

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Read more about the article St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum – St. Augustine, FL

St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum – St. Augustine, FL

In the winter of 2025, we visited Thing 1 at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. We decided to visit the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum located in the historic district. I’ve never been particularly interested in pirates and couldn’t tell you who Blackbeard was, but I learned a lot and found the museum to be worthwhile.

Pat Croce, pirate scholar, diver, and former president of the Philadelphia 76ers, began this museum in 2005. Located in Key West, the collection included many of Croce’s artifacts from his dives. The museum moved to St. Augustine in 2010 and boasts over 800 heirlooms, exhibits created by Disney imagineers, and multiple “Book of Pirates” interactive touch-screen displays.

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Read more about the article Marineland, Florida

Marineland, Florida

Spring is always a fun time to visit St. Augustine. We loved going down there every year for the tail end of our daughter’s spring break at Flagler College. Even though she usually came home for the week, we found excuses to make the trip down there since she had a few days off from school to be a tourist. Last spring, we decided to go to Marineland.

Marineland isn’t a place you hear about much now. But in its heyday from the 1940s to 1970s, Marineland drew in crowds of up to 500,000 per year. When my parents took me to Disney World when I was four, we made a stop at Marineland. I don’t remember that part of the trip, so I wanted to make a return visit.

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