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        ALL OUT LONG WEEKEND

               DAY
               THREE

          8 AM
          Try the Plucked Up Chicken Biscuit with
          pineapple marmalade. Yum! Then hit
          the road for the 45-minute drive to Pine   Warm Springs
          Mountain, Georgia.
                                           1 PM - 4 PM
          10 AM                            Meander through Warm Springs for an
          Encounter zebras, giraffes and other exotic   afternoon of shopping. The town is filled
          animals when you drive through Wild Animal   with gift boutiques, mercantiles, galleries,
          Safari in Pine Mountain. You may even have   antique shops, and more. If you’re in the
          animals eating right out of your hand!  mood for a little more history, visit President
                                           Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Little White
                                           House, his Georgia home and escape from
                                           the concerns of our nation’s capital. The
                                           entire family can enjoy hiking, horseback
                                           riding, swimming, and more at neighboring
                                           F.D. Roosevelt State Park. If you’d rather
                                           see more of the region after lunch, head
                                           south to Plains, GA, the hometown of
                                           another president, Jimmy Carter. The
                                           Jimmy Carter National Historic site includes
                                           the Plains Depot, a museum to the 1976
                                           presidential campaign, Carter’s boyhood
                                           home, and Plains High School.

           Wild Animal Safari              6 PM
                                           Come back to Columbus for a BBQ
          12 Noon                          dinner in an old bus. Country’s Barbecue’s
          Have lunch at the Safari Café or drive over   Uptown location serves up delicious pork,
          to the village of Warm Springs for an authentic   chicken and beef in a restored bus station,
          Southern lunch served buffet-style.  complete with a dine-in bus.













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