Route Map as of May

Here is the map of our vacation route as it currently stands; we might not have time to go to all these places, though.


From Rand McNally TripMaker
Stopovers in:

• Memphis, TN - We would go through there anyway and it's the only place we'll go in Tennessee, and I want to get a Tennessee geocache (there are four in MLK park just off the interstate); there's also the Peabody ducks which I have seen, but Terry and Benjamin have not. I've wanted to go to Mud Island also, but maybe not this time.
• Clarksdale, Mississippi - I want to go to the crossroads there; Terry will probably try to talk me out of this one.
• Where the Natchez Trace crosses through near Tupelo...
• Birmingham, Alabama has the McWane Science Center with the dinosaur exhibit and Vulcan park with that big statue.
• Childersburg, Alabama where they have DeSoto Caverns; they have rides and stuff besides the caverns; it seems like the best deal on this one is to combine the couples pac deal (with 6 attractions) with one child's cavern tour which would be $61. We might need more than 6 attraction tickets, though. I think Benjamin will like the water balloon fight and the water spraying labyrinth and I really want to do the maze and they have a lot of other stuff.
• Anniston, Alabama has the Anniston Museum of Natural History; this one I'm not sure about; it looks like a decent museum, but I don't see any dinosaurs, so I don't know if it would be worth it.
• Bremen, Georgia and visit Terry's brother
• Atlanta, Georgia is a big city; they have a lot of stuff; I was in Atlanta once, stuck in the airport for 4 hours by myself when I was about 11 years old. I think we might narrow it down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History with the dinosaurs and Stone Mountain Park with skyride, duck boats, train, etc. If we come back this way, we could do one on the way and one on the way back, but we never know where we're going to end up on vacation, so that might not work.
  
• Savannah, Georgia and Tybee Island - look for ghosts, go to Bonaventure Cemetery, see the historic squares; Erin says to go down on the pier on Tybee after dark; I hear the whole city is haunted, so we probably just need to go out at night a lot. We need to eat at the Pirate House which is haunted. Erin also said there's a lot of stuff for kids on the pier. I need to ask her again about that crab place where we can eat. There's also the Echo Chamber geocache in Savannah. Also need to find a dolphin tour around here for Benjamin. I have this list of haunted places in Savannah, but I don't know where they are; searches bring up all the places with haunted tours, but they don't give the addresses of the places of course. I'd like to make my own tour. We might want to go to the Oatland Island Wildlife Center; it's supposed to be haunted, too.
• Jekyll Island is on down the coast, and there are lots of geocaches there.
• Folkston, Georgia has the Folkston Funnel where the trains go through, and there's a cache there and lots of other caches here, and there's also one of the entrances to the Okefenokee Swamp.
• The Okefenokee Swamp has three entrances (actually more), and I'm trying to figure out what all we want to do. I'll have to organize all my swamp info...
• Waycross, GA has an entrance to the Okefenokee Swamp also. The Southern Forest World Museum is there, but I don't know if that's something we would get into.
  
• Valdosta, GA has the Wild Adventures Theme Park where they have the zoo animals and also rides and a water park.
• Tifton, GA has the Agrirama where they have the 1800s farms, town, and industry.

Now, I have to look again and see what all I missed and then figure out what we don't have time for...