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Take time away from
celebrating to visit Bellingrath Gardens and home, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Weeks Bay Preserve, and Mobile Botanical Gardens (which will introduce you to ecological diversity of Mobile as well). Then there are all of those parades. All of which are guaranteed to make you feel good.
MACON GEORGIA: SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
For some people, sports equate happiness. The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame's 46th Induction Class, which will be held February 7-8 2003, will includes two female pioneers, arguably baseball's greatest home run hitter, one of football's best place kickers, a Peach State high school coaching legend, and one of Georgia's most celebrated golfers.
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame is newest of Macon's attractions housing memorabilia of pro and amateur athletes in all fields. You can even experience thrill of driving in a Nascar event without danger. Climb into a racecar and take wheel in a fast paced race. Hear sound when you ram fence. Experience thrill of track. Then get results of your foray into professional racecar driving. Depending on how well you drive, results may or my not make you happy. The museum is sure to be a crowd pleaser for sports fans and non-fans alike
FORT VALLEY GEORGIA: FESTIVALOF CAMELLIAS
Flowers are a sure mood lifter, so don't miss Festival of Camellias at Massee Lane Gardens in Fort Valley Georgia encompasses entire month of February when camellia blooms are at their peak.(Something is out of place in this sentence.) The flowers begin to show color in October and continue through late March.
Not only camellias show their beautiful faces here. Each season provides a new delight for eyes with roses, flowering bulbs, day lilies and much more. Even path winding throughout gardens is unusual. Scattered randomly through it you will find ancient millstones gathered from middle Georgia. Also along path you spot granite mile stones from Old Wire Road witch ran from New Orleans to Washington, D. C. The road was so named because it was route of first telegraph lines in southeast.
After you have absorbed nature's outdoor offerings, visit two museums housing largest public collection of Boehm Porcelains. Here you will find nature reproduced so exquisitely you will sometimes think you are looking on a live bird or a blooming flower.
ATHENS GEORGIA: TASTE OF ATHENS
Food is sure to make everyone happy and Taste of Athens, a community fund raiser, is sure to make you feel good all over. You get to sample all of exotic restaurants Athens Georgia abounds in all under on roof and contribute to a good cause at same time this February 23th.
Athens' restaurants are hard to beat both in number and in excellent cuisine. Harry Bissett's New Orleans Cafe and Oyster Bar, where you experience ambience as well as authentic food of "The Big Easy". It's housed in an old bank building and mellow brick walls are reminiscent of some of French Quarter's courtyard restaurants. The majority of food served here is spicy, for example The Blackened Redfish, gumbo and Crawfish Etoffee, but there are enough less heated dishes to suit any taste. Any festival that brings all of these culinary delights together makes me happy.
It looks like for David, happiness is scenery, and for Kathleen, it's festivals. Whatever it is about traveling that turns you on, now's time to hit trail. So "Happy Trails to you until we meet again."
Kathleen Walls is publisher of American Roads Magazine at http://www.americanroads.net, and David Leonhardt is publisher of Your Daily Dose of Happiness at http://www.TheHappyGuy.com/daily-happiness-free-ezine.html.
