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Explore Georgia: Tybee Island Tips No One Tells You About

Ever wonder how can you maximize your visit to Tybee Island? We have gathered the best insider tips so you can plan a dream trip to one of the most unique places you'll ever visit. BEST PLACE TO LAY DOWN YOUR TOWEL Park near the Tybee Beach Beach and Pavilion ( Tybrisa St, Tybee Island, GA 31328) use the bridge  in front of the Tybee Island Marine Center  turn right and walk towards the rock formation close to the sand dunes. This portion of the beach has a smoother sand, lots of shallow areas that are perfect for little kids to bathe safely, is less crowded, and because it's close to the sand dunes you will see a large variety of seaside birds.

What's Happy This Week: 5-31-2001

1. Miss Britt RV Trip and The Pursuit of Happiness Deltona family ditches home, job, possessions for a year traveling  in an RV. First stop Savannah, Ga! http://miss-britt.com/rv-trip/ I'm really keeping an eye on this story. This family is doing something that many of us would love to experience at least once in our lifetime. In the pursuit of happiness — or at least adventure — Miss Britt and her husband have sold almost everything they own, including the spacious four-bedroom, three-bath house they bought just four years ago, and given Britt's Mustang convertible to charity and are taking off to travel around the United States for a year. Read the rest of the story here: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/os-rv-family-20110530,0,986295.story   2. Huge painting bringing happiness to the walls     Artist Chen Dongfan from the Clepic Image gallery works on the painting on the five-story building in Wuchang Subdistrict. He is responsible to give fo...

The Great Food Truck Race Coming To Atlanta This Weekend - Meet The Hodge Podge Truck

The food trucks are coming, the food trucks are coming!! That's been the latest buzz on twitter for the past 3 days.  Food Network has finally agree to bring the food trucks from  "The Great Food Truck Race" to Atlanta.   The second season of Food Network's the Great Food Truck Race is hitting the road, with chef  Tyler Florence returning as host. While you’ll have to wait until Sunday, August 14 to watch the first episode, you can meet the crew from the Hodge Podge Truck this Saturday from 12-9 PM at the Atlantic Station. Gourmet food trucks are changing the way Americans think about street food.  Cleveland food chef Chris Hodgson, piloting his second food truck the "Hodge Podge Truck"  is competing for the tittle of the best food truck in the nation.  Chris Hodgson has always had a love for food. Since he was a young boy experimenting in the kitchen ruining all his mother's pots and pans  he h...

Memorial Day Weekend Events Around Atlanta and Beyond You Don't Want to Miss

 World of Coca-Cola World of Coca-Cola Celebrates Summer Inside and Out Outside the attraction, a Happiness Factory -themed 6-hole miniature golf course will allow guests to test their skills and engage in a little competition with friends and family. Inside the World of Coca-Cola , they will be able to view Happyfication , a new six-minute animated film in our Happiness Factory Theater . This new film chronicles a musical journey through a fantastic world inside a Coke vending machine where Happiness Factory workers share their secrets for finding happiness. Guests will want to have their cameras ready for photos with Wendy, one of the characters from the film, as well as with the Coca-Cola Polar Bear. Another must-see element of the attraction is the fully-functioning bottling line that produces 8 oz. bottles of Coca-Cola.  This summer, guests may take home a 125th Anniversary commemorative bottle at the end of Taste It where they can sample over 60 different bevera...

What's Happy this Week (5-23-2011)

1. Pinrest New IPhone App: Pin all the things that make you happy with the new Pinrest IPhone app. Pinterest is a place to catalog the things you love. Request and invite and start pinning.  http://pinterest.com/about/iphone/ 2. Pursuit of happiness is OK but too much can backfire: According to June Gruber of Yale University, who has co-authored the research along with Iris Mauss of the University of Denver and Maya Tamir of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, being happy is good but pursuing happiness too much can backfire.   Is not that the tools often suggested for making yourself happy aren’t necessarily bad for you — like taking time every day to think about things you are happy about or grateful for, or setting up situations that are likely to make you happy. Is just that you need to understand that after watching a happy film, or reading an article that praises happiness you can end up feeling much worse than when you started, mainly because you migh...

Have you heard? Bilingualism is a plus, not a minus. My duality is my reality. This is the New American Reality

Someone posted this video on their facebook wall and it left me speechless. It explains beautifully about America's new reality, me... The U.S. Census numbers have confirmed that the Hispanic population has reached an important milestone, the 50 million mark. We are waking up to a new reality, a new face of America. The New American Reality video speaks to the unique experience of being Latino in America today.

My School, My Choice 12 Powerful Photos that Tells a Story

Parents, Students Rally To Keep Charter Schools Open In the first place, God made idiots.  That was for practice.  Then he made school boards.  Mark Twain   Read: Charter school law declared unconstitutional   http://www. ivyprepacademy .org Related YouTube Videos worth watching: