Because I love anachronism, here are photos from the trip I took to Georgia and the Carolinas with the fam last year around this time. For ten days. In a car. For ten days.

(Still sort of wish we were going back this year. I love that molasses twang).

GEORGIA - ATLANTA

My dad insisted the first thing we must do in Atlanta (after missing our flight, sitting stand-by for four flights at LAX, then flying out of Orange County the next morning) was go to the World of Coca-Cola. He said it was a “must-see.”

It turned out to be more like a forty-five minute commercial for Coca-Cola. One which we paid $15 each for.

I liked this guy. It’s probably a visual representation of what your kidneys look like after you drink too much Coke.

The only cool part was here: the tasting room. They had fountains, divided by region, of all the 60 plus different sodas Coca-Cola makes.

Smart Apple was kind of gross.

Vegitabeta was delicious.

All the guides insisted we try this one.

It tasted like this.

My brother tried them all and got a stomach ache.

GEORGIA - SAVANNAH

Savannah was really beautiful. This is supposedly where they filmed the bus stop scene in Forest Gump. That movie makes me cry like I’m swimming in a pool of onion juice.

The city is full of these overarching oak trees which are all draped in this swaying Spanish Moss. I think this is what people refer to as “nature.”

We ate at the Food Network star Paula Deen’s restaurant that night.

It tasted like fried cheesy delightful heaven.

SOUTH CAROLINA - CHARLESTON

Charleston looked like the set of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (and so did Savannah, mostly because it was filmed there).

This was the sitting room of our “inn.”

They served sherry every evening from 8-11pm, and people played chess and chatted by the fire. I just about fell over I was so into this.

NORTH CAROLINA - WAFFLE HOUSE

I’m not sure what city we were in, but it doesn’t matter because we were at Waffle House.

This is our waiter. His name was Josh, ok baby.

See?

I kind of wanted to order this, but I was a little timid about it.

So I ordered this.

On this trip, I discovered that I adore grits.

This place accepted American Express, so I didn’t have to hear my Dad ask the waiter how many dishes he would have to wash to settle the bill. Again. For the thirty-second time.

THE REST - CAPE FEAR, MYRTLE BEACH, WINSTON-SALEM, AND DURHAM.

I didn’t really take many pictures in these places because they were sort of boring. (Sorry nice people of these towns).

NORTH CAROLINA - CHARLOTTE

This was our last stop and by this time we had sort of realized that ten days in the car was perhaps a bit excessive. We are also so tired of historical recreations and civil-war museums that we spend our two days here going to malls and movies. (Yes Man was really good).

The end.

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