I second the recommendation for Savannah. Well worth spending an entire day there. I only had a few hours but remember a lot of interesting shops along the waterfront with glassblowers and candle-makers doing demonstrations.
I didn't answer originally because apart from brief visits to Atlanta, I really only know the extreme south-east corner, and I am not sure where Fort Benning is. I commuted into Jacksonville from St Mary's for a little while; at the time it was a sleepy little southern town marred by a paper mill, but also apparently a jumping-off point for a national park in the islands off the coast there. Nevada Barr set a book there, although I didn't make it over myself -- but this is a possible weekend trip, maybe; it's supposed to be fairly special. I'd have to check the distance but I am sure it's too far for a day trip. Ditto Savannah. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > Bruce- > > I've lived in Ga nearly all my life, but mostly in and around Atlanta. > I haven't spent a ton of time in the Columbus, which is where Ft Benning > is. Atlanta's about 2 hours away, and I could give you a huge list of > nightlife and other fun things to do here, if/when you visit "the big > city". That's an email or five all to itself. > > You'll be about an hour away from the town of Pine Mountain and Callaway > Gardens (www.callawaygardens.com), which is a great family vacation spot > and has some cool stuff to do. > > I'd also highly recommend checking out the Savannah area (about 4.5 hours > from you). There is a ton of historical stuff there - you could spend many > weekends exploring and not see everything. Just outside of Savannah is also > Tybee Island, which is a pretty chill and very casual beach island. > > On the long island hopping, marsh traversing road to Tybee is the Civil War > era Fort Pulaski (http://www.nps.gov/fopu). It's partially restored, with > all the underground ammo bunkers intact and lots of damage still visible > from it's last siege. I always stop by there on my way out to Tybee - I > find it a very interesting thing to see. They fire a cannon a few times a > day on weekends too, in uniform, using the proper era procedure, explaining > it the whole way through - which is kinda cool to see. > > There is also a bunch of cool things up in the North GA mountains to see. > Like Erika says, I am kinda a city boy now, but I have spent plenty of time > up in the mountains. Lots of good Appalachian trail day hikes or > overnights. The tourist town of Helen, GA is worth looking into, and they > also have lazy river tubing in the summertime. > > There are also various lakes around for boating and such. Lake Lanier is > closest to Atlanta, but I'll bet there is one more convenient to Columbus > than that. > > You will also be about 4 hours from the Florida panhandle, which has some > fun spots. Panama City, Destin, Seaside (where the movie The Truman Show > was filmed). > > I'm not terribly into NASCAR, though Turner here in Atlanta does run all > the NASCAR online stuff, so I am "one and a half degree of separation" > connected to all that. > > That's all I got for now... > > -Cameron > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So in December my fiancee and I will be moving to Fort Benning, Ga., > which > > is near Columbus. Anyone from Ga can tell me about the state other than > > peaches and NASCAR (Yeah, I am a NASCAR fan and I'll be hitting ALL of > the > > nearby tracks). We were just wondering about things to see, historical > > sites, fun places to go to, night life, etc... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bruce > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345340 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
