Georgia Travel Blogs

Welcome to Atlanta
Dec 29, 2007 (13 photos)

Tuning into any one of the various hip hop radio stations as I drive past spaghetti junction (where I-85 crosses I-285 just north of Atlanta) I start to feel the vibe that is Hotlanta, or maybe you prefer the dirty south.  Ludacris, Outkast, JD and ...

Tbilisi Market
Jan 13, 2006 (27 photos)

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Sidetracked in Savannah
Jun 25, 2008 (21 photos)

       There was a TV show called Savannah a while ago. I don't remember much about the show, but I've wanted to check out Savannah ever since I saw it. I would never have gone to Savannah solely for the purpose of going ...

Lightening those plane loads
Jul 17, 2008

Apparently Atlanta's airport is the busiest in the world. Almost a million 'airplane movements' last year. While I am still waiting for a brave airline to start offering fares based on body weight (never in America because of the lard-ass lobby), ...

Visiting Erik's Dad
Jan 11, 2006 (13 photos)

we went to visit the famous Georgian artist :-).

Georgian Hospital
Jan 12, 2006 (11 photos)

... good place to make holiday or go skiing. With the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia entered a very difficult time. (see History of Georgia and the CIA world factbook). Finally we were called to the doctor's office ...

Georgian Soul, part II
Feb 13, 2008 (10 photos)

... , and he was the first western traveler I'd seen since Kyrgyzstan. Visiting the Tsminda Sameba Cathedral, the largest in Georgia and visible throughout downtown Tbilisi, I marveled at the paintings and lit a few candles, though the massive cathedral ...

Hot,Damn Hot
Jun 30, 2005 (5 photos)

... with my meal but it will cost ya,she smiled :-) When I was in New York people were saying "You're going to Georgia, Jeeze Buddy watcha yerslef, its dangerous down there!" before they drunkly disappeared to catch the subway at half one in the morning :-) ...

Davit Gareja
Feb 4, 2008

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CRAZY RIDES TO SAN ANTONIO
Oct 17, 2003 (3 photos)

Hitchhiking east from the Grand Canyon, I got stranded for five hours in Flagstaff. Then, a crazy lady picked me up. She wasn't extravagantly crazy or dangerous - but she had her problems. And, it wasn't she who drove me to Albuquerque, but I who ...

rafting the White Salmon
Jul 3, 2007 (32 photos)

I woke up at 7AM, had a shower, dropped camp and went for a big breakfast.  A couple hours later I left on a white water rafting trip with Zollers on the White Salmon River.  It was a 7 1/2 mile adventure filled with wicked white.  I was ...

Bakuriani - THE MOUNTAINS
Jan 14, 2006 (41 photos)

... that I didn't notice my state while Baidi was with me. Anyway. Now she was gone. I didn't really care where we would go. Georgia seemed grey, sad and cold to me at the moment. Moreover I was sick. I missed Baidi. I couldn't stand being without her. So ...

White Sands National Monument
Jun 10, 2007 (29 photos)

I left camp at 9AM and drove 18 miles to White Sands National Monument.  Can you guess why they call it that?  Well, the sand dunes formed over 250 million years ago when this region was at the bottom of the sea ( ...

From Atlanta
Jan 10, 2006

My stay at Chad's was also perfect. He has a great family and pictures of our grandfathers on the wall. It was really nice to see these ancestors before I left (I hadn't known my great, great grandfather in Italy had such a long beard!). Tuesday morning ...

Georgian Soul, part I
Feb 2, 2008 (15 photos)

... next to the Marriot. EU flags, with their gold stars on blue, were next to many Georgian flags. Another sign said: "Georgia is part of Europe." Geographically, experts see Europe as ending at the divide of the Caucasus, where Prometheus was chained in ...

Home sweet home!
Sep 4, 2008 (3 photos)

I'm home! Home! HOME! After 9 hours of sitting in the middle seat, I arrived in America!  I can eavesdrop now, order food like a perfectly functional person, and say hello to Benjamin.  Hartfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta is the biggest and ...

Colchis, Ancient Land of the Golden Fleece
Feb 16, 2008 (22 photos)

... face the Mongols and Tamerlane, who killed 100,000 Georgian infidels who refused to convert from Christianity in one day.  Still, Georgia survived. Behind me, they closed the doors early because of the snow and I walked back down to the bus stop, ...

Georgia national sites
Jul 25, 2007 (29 photos)

... Site.  I visited Jimmy Carter's boyhood home and toured its inside.  I also drove by his current home in Plains, Georgia. I then drove another four or five hours south until I reached Tampa, Florida.  

Home
Jan 15, 2005

January 15, 05 Shanghai is the  largest city in China. Beijing is the 2nd. Shanghai is a much different place. It's a new city with shining structures, modern shopping and entertainment centers all over. There is really no old section of the ...

Black Sea
Feb 19, 2008 (3 photos)

The Black Sea came into view as the marshrutka descended to the shoreline. Orange groves and eucalyptus trees grew here, the landscape was more green. Still above in the hills, the deciduous forests were covered in snow. The relative warmth was short- ...

CIVIL WAR
Jul 24, 2007 (32 photos)

I started the day at Stones River National Battlefield.  It was at this site between December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863 during the Civil War that the Confederate Army of Tennessee fought the Union Army of the Cumberland which resulted in 30% ...

Planes, Trains, and......beaches???????
Dec 4, 2007 (29 photos)

... history during the Revolutionary War as a bloody battlefield and continued with over 100 years of the Central of Georgia Railway's operations. I visited the massive roundhouse with operating turntable, saw the 125 foot industrial smokestack, examined the ...

Trabzon to Tbilisi
Jan 4, 2006 (2 photos)

... Using a mix of English and Russian, they finally tell us that she can leave Turkey, but she wont be able to enter Georgia. "Why?" , I ask. "No visa!", they say. I answer: "impossible, I read it on the website of the Georgian embassy that she ...

Trabzon to Tbilisi, continued
Jan 5, 2006

going back in the morning arriving at the embassy visa impossible, they don't have the prices, yet. calling the german embassy how can't you have the prices. everything impossible. german embassy can't call the embassy in turkey. everyone ...

Historic Savannah!
Dec 3, 2007 (40 photos)

"Savannah, Georgia. Established in 1733 to become a bustling port for exporting cotton and a city of culture whose architecture blended a variety of styles...Federal, English Regency, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Romanesque Revival and ...

Savannah
Dec 2, 2007

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What a LOOOOOOOONG A** DAY!!!
Aug 24, 2006

Photographed and got audio from a nurse who worked in the neo-natal unit at Columbia Hospital at Tulane and her family, who rode out Katrina at the hospital. It was an interesting experience in that their story had a happy ending. None of them planned to ...

I-85 is soooooooooo ugly
Aug 22, 2006

Gawd I hate driving through the south on interstates! But at least we found a Flying J prior to being smacked by the tornado/storm that just blew into town...

Relaxing in my comfort zone
Jun 17, 2008

Hi everyone! After acing final exams and moving out of the dorm, I came down to Atlanta to hang out at home before flying out on Thursday.  As a Psychology and Linguistics double major and an avid traveler, I ...

Tbilissi Arts Academy
Jan 10, 2006 (24 photos)

... , Roland, is a famous painter and sculpturist throughout the country who already has works on permanent display in the Georgia National Arts Gallery. Eric (his Georgian name is Erekle) himself studies to be a restaurator of artistic and archeological ...