Most Recent Trip of Over 50 Miles…

Most Recent Trip of Over 50 Miles…

The older I get the more the Eddie Money song ‘I Wanna Go Back’ means to me.  As far as I am concerned, the 1980’s were the decade.  Big hair, boy bands, great music- there’s not much I don’t like about the ‘80’s.  With that in mind, I really like re-visiting places where memories were good and times were fun.  Once such place was Athens, Georgia, home of the Georgia Bull Dawgs (yes that is spelled correctly).   Although I only attended UGA for one year, I love the dawgs and watch each and every football game, but had never returned since I moved home to finish my degree at UNC-G in 1988.  (Has that been as long ago as it looks when it is typed?)  Anyway, this past year, I told my husband that I wanted tickets to see UGA play at Sanford Stadium for my Christmas present; I got ‘em!  We traveled to Athens for the UGA vs. Ga. Tech game.  I was so excited!  We stayed the weekend at the hotel where I attended freshmen orientation in 1987.  At every corner, there was a memory.  I even saw the shoe store when I bought my first and only pair of Sebagos, top siders, which I still have to this day and wear.  How many shoes can you say that about?  My only regret is that I didn’t make this pilgrimage sooner.  What have I been waiting for?  Are there places that give you a good feeling?  Where are they and what happened at those places that make you smile?  Don’t wait some 20 plus years, make that trip and holler for your team like you still walked the campus in those 22 year old top siders…Where do you want to go?

By Carolyn S. Peterson