The Southern Travel Blog

A Quick Guide to the Gettysburg National Military Park

The stone wall near Cemetery Ridge

It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…

William Faulkner, p. 190 in my edition of Intruder in the Dust

While we tend to concentrate our own family travel on those places our clients love – Disney, the Carolina Coast, Sandals, the Caribbean – we occasionally make a trip to a spot off of our own beaten track.

A few weeks ago for Easter, we visited friends in Reisterstown, Maryland, a community west of Baltimore. [Read more…]

Disney Dining Plans – A Few Things to Consider

By Mark

Enjoying a meal at Spirit of Aloha (you can use meal plan credits for shows, too!)

This is a big week for travel agents around the country and Walt Disney World travelers alike.

Why?

Disney just announced the always-anticipated free Walt Disney World dining plans.

The plans became available to Disney Visa cardholders last week, and will open up to everyone starting this Wednesday, May 7th 2014.

Disney dining plans are a way for certain guests at Walt Disney World to pre-pay for meals while at the participating restaurants in the parks and resorts. During less busy times of the year Disney will often offer free plans, just like they are getting ready to do this week. [Read more…]

Don’t Forget Your Own Backyard!

By Mark

Dogwoods blooming in Willowbrook Park near our home in Burlington, NC

Owning Southern Girl Travel is tremendously rewarding. Helping people travel really is a dream job, and we’ve only found one significant occupational hazard.

We call it travel envy.

Sometimes planning trips to places we love or would love to visit all while hanging out at home really fosters a sense of wanderlust – so much so that we can forget to enjoy what we have here at home, in our own proverbial backyard. [Read more…]

4 Ways for Dads to Get the Most from a Disney Cruise

By Mark

Family photo op on the Disney Dream!

I’m a dad, as well as a husband, and I love to vacation with my family.

Some of the best moments of my life have come via our family’s travels.

I love Disney, though I didn’t always…read a little about that in my Dr. Strangedad post. A Disney Cruise can be one of the most phenomenal family vacations experiences available.

But…

You knew it was coming, there had to be a but.

For a dad, sometimes it’s just all too much. [Read more…]

5 Sunsets from the Front Street Grill in Beaufort, North Carolina!

By Mark

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

April 20, 2014

The Front Street Grill at Stillwater really stands out in Beaufort.

The food, the drink, and the service are all phenomenal. Then, there are the sunsets.

Beaufort’s sunsets are amazing from any vantage point, but when combined with a warm summer evening, a cool drink, and a spot on the lower deck of the Front Street Grill’s Rhum Bar, you have the makings of a perfect experience. [Read more…]

April 20, 2014

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