After two years without a summer road trip, you may be itching to go somewhere new. But you don't want to drive too far with gas prices the way they are, and you certainly don't want to deal with crowds of tourists doing touristy things. The US offers a lot of interesting and different experiences in small towns, and one may be relatively near you.
Cartersville, Georgia, has only 23,000 residents, but has three Smithsonian Affiliate museums, plus historic sites and businesses that keep an old-fashioned aesthetic. Africatown, Alabama, is where the formerly enslaved Africans of the ship Clotilda settled, and some of their descendants still live there. Africatown has a new museum opening this summer. And everyone knows Winslow, Arizona, thank to the Eagles song "Take It Easy" -they even have a Standin’ on the Corner Park! But Winslow also has Fred Harvey's last railway hotel (now a Historic Landmark), the Old Trails Museum, a Hopi archaeological site, and it's close to Meteor Crater and the Petrified Forest. Read about these towns, 15 of them in all, and what they have to offer at Smithsonian.
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You had me at "Gortons"
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I would suggest visiting Rockport/Glousester Mass. for a fun time. Gorton's has a fishing fleet that comes in to port so they can process the fish for their frozen food company and the smell of the batter frying is heavenly. The Glousester House is a very old restaurant on a pier that has incredible food. The stuffed lobster is a stand out dish. Rockport is an artist colony with a number of shops built on piers where you can find unique art works and marvelous oil paintings. So much to see and do in these side by side towns. I was born in Boston so I love going back to Massachusetts whenever I can.
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Driving to Georgia would be cheaper for me. Did you know they charge $13 for a bottle of water on a cruise ship? Oh yeah, and you have to drive to a port to get on.
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Imagine paying 5 dollars a gallon, to go to see museums in Georgia of all places when you could just like get wasted on a Carnival Cruise
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