My wife and I are going down to Atlanta in a few weeks.
I am going down chiefly for my P51 flight there at the Dixie Wing while we are there we would like to do some other things.
The Aquarium is #1 on the list followed by Kennesaw Battlefield and the Fernbank Natural History Museum. (My wife wants to see dino skeletons, I have a cool wife:D).
I have been looking online and The Atlanta Cyclorama and the Zoo seem interesting and eating at the 57th Fighter group restaurant.
What other things are there to do in Atlanta?
Not really into “night life”. Unless there are some ghost tours or something like that.
We like historical, natural, cultural type stuff.
Not sure if we will have time to do everything, but I like to have a list of stuff so if something doesn’t pan out, we have an alternate.
The P51 (me) and the Aquarium (her) are on the must do, everything else is optional.
Not Atlanta, but if you are ever in the area, I highly recommend The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman for dino bones: http://www.museumoftherockies.org/
Thanks. I wasn’t sure. Always heard rumors about a tour but nothing in concrete.
I dated a girl in Snellville, worked in Duluth, and lived in Greyson for a while so I am racking my brain trying to remember were my ex and I used to go and have fun on the weekend that’s around the ATL area. What is the building that has the spinning restaraunt on the top floor? That would be another nice place to eat. Cant remember the name but probably called Peachtree something or other like half of Atlanta.
Ah, Snellville/Duluth/Greyson - I’ve been there once or twice.
The restaurant you referred to is the Sun Dial, located at the top of the Westin Peachtree hotel. The outer ring of the restaurant revolves around the center core. It’s worth it to go at twilight so you can see the view in the daylight and when it gets dark. Drinks and food are expensive.
The Aquarium have Atlanta PD officers station at the metal detectors. They will take your Spyderco. Like I said, no weapons of any kind. It’s scary because the Aquarium is located in one of the worst area of town. Go in the daytime when all of the goblins are asleep before they get too jacked on on khat in the evening.
The Stone Mountain isn’t a tourist trap like Rock City. Locals go there all the time. On Friday nights they usually have a laser show on the face of the mountain. Although the laser show may be closed after September. It’s a good place to walk, hike, take in a little fresh air.
Thanks a bunch Sam for the advice on the Aquarium. I would probably have had to stop and turn around and go back to the car.
We will be going first thing on a weekday so maybe the goblins will be in for the morning.
Right now we will be there on a Friday night, I will definitely investigate the light show.
Thanks for the food ideas too. I would like to eat somewhere that isn’t the same old chain restaurants that I can eat at here.
That turning restaurant sounds kind of cool. Do you have to have reservations?
Man those dogs look good, especially since all I have had to eat today is a bowl of Cheerios and I am going to have to eat a chicken salad sandwich out of the machine.
Where is “here” that you’re from? that will give me an idea of the non chain food that I can recommend. We visited my sister in law in Wash, DC and I specifically asked that she take us to “non chain” restaurants. She did not disappoint us, we went to some good places.
You don’t have to make a reservation at the Sun Dial if you just want to have a drink at the bar. You do need to make a reservation if you want to dine in. They used to have Sunday brunches, those are good too.
The Sun Dial/Westin Peachtree hotel, the Varsity and the Aquarium are all within a two mile radius. They are smack dab in downtown ATL.
Gotcha on your location. Good, so far we haven’t recommended you anything you can find at home.
I have to stop by PDK to check out the planes.
Do you like watches (wrist watches), if you do, take a trip to Phipps Plaza (upscale mall) and check out a few watch stores. Omega has their boutique in Phipps, Mayors sell Rolexes, there are a few other stores that sell stuff like Breitlings, Tags, Hamiltons, Panarais, etc. Phipps plaza is about 3 miles south of PDK on Peachtree Road.
Technically the only chain restaurants where I live is an Applebees and our new Cracker Barrel. Have to drive 45 min to Jackson to find the other chains. So in reality, the other chains are like we are “going out on the town” but I would like to eat somewhere that I can’t easily get to.
Not a watch guy. If you hadn’t said they were watches, I would have assumed you were talking about store names. My watch consists of my cell phone or looking at where the sun is in the sky.
I am a plane guy though and I am hoping that CAF Dixie will have most of their other aircraft around while I am there so I can look at them too. I really want to see their F4U Corsair. I have never seen one in person before.
