July 26, 2026
The Great Southern Road Trip: Six Drives That Show You the Real South
Some of the South can only be understood from behind the wheel. These are six drives worth clearing a whole weekend for.
Weekly series
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About
A weekly love letter to one Southern town worth the drive.
Installments
Berea, KY · July 25, 2026
Berea, Kentucky: The Town That Makes Things by Hand
A small Kentucky town organized around craft, anchored by a college where students earn a tuition-free education by learning the old Appalachian arts.
Cades Cove, TN · July 18, 2026
Cades Cove: The Valley That Was Kept
A mountain valley in the Smokies where a whole community was bought out and moved so the place could be saved, and their empty cabins and churches still stand.
Monroeville, AL · July 14, 2026
Monroeville, Alabama: The Town That Became a Book
A small Alabama town two childhood friends turned into American literature, where the courthouse from the most famous courtroom in fiction still stands.
Beaufort, SC · July 12, 2026
A Tale of Two Beauforts: North Carolina and South Carolina
Same spelling, two pronunciations, two souls. One Beaufort works the Atlantic tides, the other drowses under Lowcountry oaks.
Wetumpka, AL · July 7, 2026
Wetumpka, Alabama: The Town in the Crater
A central Alabama river town sits inside a five-mile meteor crater, where the Coosa still rumbles past a downtown that kept its footing.
Madison, GA · June 30, 2026
Madison, Georgia: The Town Too Pretty to Burn
A Georgia town with so much architecture still standing that walking it feels like stepping inside a question about what survives.
Leiper's Fork, TN · June 27, 2026
Leiper's Fork: The Village That Decided Not to Grow
Thirty minutes from one of America's fastest-growing cities, Leiper's Fork chose to stay what it was. Where Nashville goes to remember what it used to be.
Natchitoches, LA · June 23, 2026
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About: Natchitoches, Louisiana
The oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, where worn brick streets follow a river that stayed put, and the meat pies start arguments.
Apalachicola, FL · June 16, 2026
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About: Apalachicola
A small fishing town on Florida's Forgotten Coast, where the river still shapes daily life and the old oyster shucking houses still stand along the water.