Blogs from Georgia, United States, North America - page 90

This past weekend I went on my first ever camping trip in preparation for my second trip out west. Before I start I might as well plug my other trip journal on here, which was a trip that I took out west last May. So if you find this an interesting read at all, you might want to take a look at that as well. But this journal is about my camping out for the first time. My backpack was not too heavy...coming in at around 20 lbs which included 3 litres of water, a tent, sleeping bag, cooking stove and 1.5 litre pan, rain jacket, some extra clothes, food, and a book (which I never read of course), plus some other various stuff like aspirin, band-aides, my trusty Kershaw 4" blade knife, and of ... read more

This past weekend, I went farther south into the green world of Athens, Georgia. It was my first time out of North Carolina since I came down here on exchange, and it was such a fun experience. The UNCW softball girls rented a couple SUVs (2007s) and headed on the road on Friday. It took about 7 hours to get from Wilmington, NC to Athens, Georgia but the ride was a lot of fun. The first thing was saw was a place called 'South of the Border' that lies right across the North Carolina/South Carolina line. It's a cute little, Mexican world full of firework stands, some rides (twirling sombreros of all things), and lots of mexi-food. We didn't get to stop in, but it definately looks a fun tourist attraction if you have the ... read more

Friday, April 20th, 2007 - Rincon and Savannah, Georgia: Earth Day Today is one of America’s significant days for two main reasons. One, it is the official World’s Earth Day, the day when everybody ought to plan something ‘green’ for supporting our earth’s collapsed lungs. However, it was merely a suggestion, a more symbolic task than a functional one, and it wasn’t a surprise that I couldn’t find anyone here planting anything, even for a flower, showing our society’s honest attitude towards our lovely earth. Two, it is the Remembrance Day for thirty-two victims (and one shooter?) in Virginia Tech’s shooting four days ago, and Americans are more responsive in this subject by showing the school’s colors of maroon and orange in their clothing. Kick’s Country radio conducted a couple minutes of silence at noon which ... read more

For Chris's Grandparent's anniversary, we joined his family and headed to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens as a group. The gardens are located next to Piedmont park, and I honestly had never known they were even there. The facilities were amazing. We began our self guided 'tour' by visiting all the outside area's, and then working our way into the buildings with the more exotic plants. One even had birds running around among the foliage. The highlight for the group was the large room with more varieties of Orchids than I thought ever existed. One of my personal favorites was the children's garden area. (I will always be a kid at heart) and that the entire facility had large wooden 'sculptures' of insects scattered around for photo ops. The $12 admission might be considered a bit steep, ... read more

After leaving Orlando, we headed to Savannah GA because we had heard it was a neat, historic place to check out. We only had a couple days there because we had a hard time finding people on couchsurfing.com to stay with. Wes caught a cold of some sort in Orlando and was really starting to feel sick on our first full day in Savannah, so we rode our bikes into town and walked around a bit. Savannah looks a lot like New Orleans, with the huge trees lining the streets, covered in moss. We went down by the river into this sort of cheesy tourist area, wandered around downtown a little, went to the cemetery, and stopped in the park for a while. But at that point Wes was feeling pretty sick and had a ... read more