Atlanta, United States Travel Blogs

... I see her a few other times over the course of the night.  The night ends with an elongated limo ride around Atlanta, before Carter decides that he is Wulfgang Puck and burns bacon and eggs at 4 am. Tuesday is perfectly lazy until our crew rolls ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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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), there ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... woman and I got a baby on each hip" The folks were interesting down there, I meet a rainman character in a bar in Atlanta. The whole bar was playing bingo, where you won chicken wings and buds for getting a bingo.This fella was in his forties wearing a ...

A travel blog entry by sunnysean
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... ancestors before I left (I hadn't known my great, great grandfather in Italy had such a long beard!). Tuesday morning I got a taste of Atlanta traffic (much worse than St. Louis) on the way to the airport. I am so greatful to Chad for the ride and stay. ...

A travel blog entry by cpricci
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... 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 busiest airport in the U.S.  When you get off the train that connects terminals to the baggage ...

A travel blog entry by sojanet
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... planned. When I got there I was told I needed to make a connecting flight in Tokyo. I argued that my ticket was non-stop to Atlanta from Seoul, but I lost and was put on the plane to Japan. They gave me a 90 day visa and I would have liked to stay, but ...

A travel blog entry by arlash
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... which resulted in 30% casualties.  The Union was victorious and led to the taking of Chattanooga and Atlanta.  I took a driving tour of the battlefield and stopped at historic points along the way.   Next ...

A travel blog entry by exploreamerica
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by dearmasa
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... nbsp;I decided to simply reverse the route:  Egypt first, then Istanbul, then trekking up north. Here is my itinerary: -Atlanta (home!) for 1 week -Amsterdam for 1 day -Egypt for 2 weeks -Istanbul for 6 weeks (side trips to 4 other cities ...

A travel blog entry by sojanet
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... , presumably for explosives. No sniffing dogs for me this time though! After the rest of the flight was ok, we arrived in Atlanta and caught a courtesy shuttle to our hotel - Econolodge, part of Choice Hotels, by the airport. The room was $42 for the ...

A travel blog entry by shonandgraham
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After a week of brainlessly bumming around the house, I have yet to come up with a profound essay.  I have compiled a list of my favorite things from the trip.  These are all from the top of my head and are probably biased due to recency effect ...

A travel blog entry by sojanet
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The kitchen is packed. I've just unplugged the fridge and it's defrosting. Hopefully there won't be a huge puddle tomorrow for me to clean up. This weekend is my last weekend working the live sound job. I've got until monday 6:30pm to be packed and ...

A travel blog entry by rebn
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I-85. Hate it Hate it hate it... It never ends. The lack of a view of ANYTHING and the endless uphills - that's right, there is this almost imperceptible (except to us) incline while heading South! What's that about?? Did I miss something in Geography? Oh ...

A travel blog entry by dearmasa
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Our drive to Atlanta took under 12 hours. There's lots of trees here. We're staying with Joel and Celina and their puppy - Hansel (so hot right now!!!) Ben went to College in San Diego with Joel and he and Cel are getting married next year. Yesterday was ...

A travel blog entry by hildreth75
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... occupy a good part of the day before a journey, and usually occur before an important international departure. My return to Atlanta marked the end of this thing I dreamt up two years ago. I anticipated an emotionally charged return, but surprisingly, I ...

A travel blog entry by rebn
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... , getting us in at 3am. Sucks! We did manage to get phone cards and meal coupons from the airline though which was nice. Atlanta was really warm, but we stayed with Joel & Celina who have wonderful air conditioning (our car doesn't even have air con). We ...

A travel blog entry by hildreth75
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... his grave and the church his father had been minister in and where hed grown up. We then had a drive around downtown Atlanta. Were loads of green spaces and nice water features and monuments. We couldnt help notice the multicultural society, we hadnt ...

A travel blog entry by neilandamy
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We experienced the highest level of culture shock on our whole trip in Atlanta when we arrived at our gate to find every seat filled with American soldiers in uniform awaiting a flight.

A travel blog entry by curtisandnancy
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Last night I came to Atlanta to see a James Taylor concert at Chastain Park Amphitheater. It was so much fun, the weather was great and the concert was even better. It was a very nice park. I plan on making a stop at it at least once a year. In front of ...

... to seeing some incoming calls OK!!! So I have to go running now and keep the legs in good working order and then go and see how the bike is coming along.... Thanks for reading this update and I shall send another just before leaving Atlanta. Cheers

Well, we stayed in Nairobi a second night since one of the Matatu's broke down.  We are leavnig for Maasailand shortly and will meet our host mum.  Haven't had dinner in 2 nights but tht will change :)  Even though we are in the slums of ...

Sono ad Atlanta, ora mi tocca aspettarre dieci ore nell'areoporto prima di prendere il mio ultimo volo che finalmente mi portera' a Milano. Come vedete sono in ritardo di un giorno perche la compagnia aerea ha  deciso bene di spostare il mio volo ...

... all the ghost stories by heart! She was great! This morning we left Savannah and got a (very very smelly!) greyhound bus to Atlanta where we are now. I apologise in advance for the crap photos on this entry. I think my memory card got a virus from a ...

We got up at 0444 and got to LAX by 0530. AirTran was already busy and security was standing still.  Luckily this leg was 1st class so we by-passed for check-in and security.  Los Angeles was cold and so was the airport.  John and I were ...

... address I could get my hands on through google of anyone working in the field of nuclear engineering outside of the United States.  South Africa and Australia were my main targets, as they are both English-speaking nations. Anyway, the point ...

Atlanta, GA. 10 pm. Fill out US costume forms, get passport, pass immigration. Now we had to look for the Delta kiosk to see where we were to stay for the night. In my case, the Holiday Inn. Not to bad.... it always could be worse. After having a ...

Hi and thanks for keeping track of me, or for making sure I have actually left! So I am finally here in Atlanta and staying with great friends for the next few days whilst I get used to the very hot and humid conditions in this part of the world, and hence ...

... that is the plot all along?! Anyway, back to the airport story. So, this day was a bit different. I was late arriving into Atlanta but my flight leaving for my next destination was also late. So, I took time to walk the entire length and width of the ...

... walking onto the plane. The Delta gate agents told me that I was probably going to have to spend the night in Atlanta, because the flight was already oversold owing to bad storms forcing cancellations the day before. Despite the SEA-ATL flight being ...