Seize Your Jackets Journey Weblog: An Atlanta Afternoon

The final dwelling recreation earlier than we hit the street for a number of weeks. Is it simply me or have the video games had higher scheduling this yr. I’m having fun with not need to rise up tremendous early to tailgate for midday video games. I might get used to that, offers me extra time to get pleasure from issues across the metropolis.

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I’m positive our guests recognize that as effectively. Touring all the way in which from Oxford will take its toll on you. Is likely to be good to sleep in a bit earlier than cranking issues as much as 11.

Journey How To: Getting from Oxford to Atlanta

Gotta love the U.S. freeway system, it makes giving instructions tremendous straightforward. When you’re driving from Oxford, Mississippi to Atlanta, Georgia is tremendous easy even when it’s a 5 hour drive. Take I-22 until you get to Birmingham, then hop on I-20 till you get to Atlanta. Nothing to it.

Relying on how far you might be keen to drive there are additionally a number of airport choices. Tupelo is about 45 minutes away and Memphis is about an hour away, with each offering flights to Atlanta for round $200 for a spherical journey. It’s not too unhealthy however at that time you in all probability received’t be saving a lot time for the cash you might be spending.

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Locations to Keep:

Throughout my final phase I highlighted inns, and there are a lot across the metropolis to select from, however this time I simply need to level out Airbnb areas are additionally fairly straightforward to seek out downtown.

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There are lots of absolutely furnished condos and homes throughout Atlanta ranging in value from $100 to $150 an evening for the upcoming weekend. Why spend that very same amount of cash on a lodge room when you may get a full home or apartment.

Issues to Do and See:

We spend a lot time in Atlanta that I’m positively masking some territory I’ve already mentioned, however lets take a look at a few of the locations close to campus which are value having fun with.

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Since you might be right here for, possibly you’d be taken with seeing the faculty soccer corridor of fame. It isn’t too removed from campus and close to the Olympic Park. When you’re searching for extra details about the historical past of school soccer and a few of the most impactful individuals, like say John Heisman and Bobby Dodd for instance, then you’ll be able to study fairly a bit on the CFB Corridor of Fame. The positioning isn’t only for older individuals, it gives many interactive reveals which youngsters can tremendously get pleasure from whereas simulating their very own large recreation moments.

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Inside strolling distance of the CFB Corridor of Fame is the Heart for Civil and Human Rights Museum. This museum has loads of tie ins to the combat for civil rights throughout all of America, however there are fairly a number of historic reveals which fall straight inside Mississippi and Georgia.

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Fernbank is a pure historical past museum which is a bit farther from downtown. Fernbank is most well-known for its T-Rex skeleton which is on present in its predominant atrium and the big star gazing simulator it has. Fernbank is an efficient location to take your children if you wish to see the wow issue of being up near actual fossils.

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The Excessive museum of artwork is a big artwork museum which is a brief distance from campus. The museum is most well-known for its artwork reveals however sometimes homes historical past reveals similar to these for King Tut’s tomb and Terracotta Troopers which it has offered a short lived dwelling to prior to now.

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When you’ve completed exploring downtown you should definitely cease by the Georgia Tech campus to tailgate and benefit from the ambiance. We don’t often have chandeliers at our tailgates, however we’re nonetheless pleasant and sit up for assembly new individuals… till the sport begins a minimum of. No matter you find yourself doing downtown this weekend you should definitely get pleasure from your self.

As at all times, Go Jackets!