Trip to the Warner Robbins Museum of Aviation

This past Labor Day weekend, our family drove down to Warner Robbins, Georgia to visit the Museum of Aviation located next to the Robbins Air Force Base. First of all, the museum is free – completely and totally free. No  paid parking, no huge requests for donation, but free — and well worth the trip.

The museum complex consists of four large buildings, an outdoor amphitheater, picnic grounds and areas for planes. In fact, a B-1 bomber is located right outside the main entrance. (more…)

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Historic Fourth Ward Park

Historic Fourth Ward Park: Atlanta, GA

Atlanta.

One usually thinks of the Deep South, Coca-Cola and boiled peanuts.

Rarely would someone compare any part of Atlanta to the Pacific Northwest.

However, I found a small piece of the Pacific Northwest less than 20 minutes from my home. (more…)

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Downtown Memphis

18 Hours in Memphis

It was the last leg of our Mother-Daughter trip. We had spent one night in Louisville, one night in St. Louis and our third and final destination before going home was Memphis.

Two years prior to this trip, I had taken my other daughter, Thing 1, to a relative’s 90th birthday party in Memphis. On that trip, we spent one day at the family reunion and the other at the Memphis Zoo. Thing 2 also wanted to explore Memphis, but because we’d seen the St. Louis Zoo, she wanted to see something different from the zoo. (more…)