Local Living Tours & Trips in Sun Belt

Stay 2 nights at the Jekyll Island Club from 1887 where the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers spent winters, with croquet lawns and beach trails to check out. See Gullah culture at Boone Hall Plantation, a working farm since 1681, and take cooking classes in Savannah before heading to River Street Inn.

Tour the Santa Barbara Old Mission with its neoclassical facade and symbolic twin towers featuring Chumash designs. Check out downtown San Luis Obispo's art murals in one of America's happiest cities before visiting the Junk Girls' sustainability studio. Walk through lavender fields in San Miguel and see the hand-cultivation process at a working farm on California's Central Coast.

Have breakfast at The Arcade, Memphis' oldest café, and later attend Cajun cooking demos at the New Orleans School of Cooking. Tour Graceland's private planes and mansion, see RCA Studio B where country legends recorded, and find jazz clubs in the French Quarter, then join Backbeats Mojo Tour led by Beale Street musicians.

Try Memphis BBQ with its signature dry rub and slow-smoked ribs on Beale Street, then see Elvis's small two-room birthplace in Tupelo. Check out the original Colonel Sanders restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky (it's on the National Register) and head to Fourth Street Live in Louisville with bourbon distilleries along Whiskey Row.

Join a jeep tour with Navajo guides through Monument Valley's iconic sandstone formations and walk through Antelope Canyon's slot canyons near Page. Stay at Goulding's Lodge overlooking Monument Valley and try Navajo cuisine at the Stagecoach Restaurant. Drive historic Route 66 through Oatman, Arizona, where you'll encounter wild donkeys and Wild West gunslinger shows in this former gold mining town.

Miami Beach's white sand and turquoise waters feature colorful Lifeguard Towers dotting the coastline, then you'll check out Ocean Drive's palm-lined Art Deco district in South Beach. Little Havana's Calle Ocho showcases Cuban legends on its mini walk of fame, and you can sample street food at Bayside Marketplace while seeing Wynwood's transformed warehouses now housing galleries and craft beer spots. Optional Everglades Airboat Tour and nighttime paddleboard trip through Miami's waterways are available.

See the Sun Belt's vibrant cities with locally-loved food and culture from Miami's Little Havana district where Cubano sandwiches and café con leche fuel your morning at Versailles Restaurant. Walk through Wynwood's open-air murals in former warehouses turned craft beer spots, then cool off at hotel pools under the Nevada desert sun. Optional Everglades Airboat Tours bring you face-to-face with subtropical wildlife, while nighttime paddleboard adventures reveal Miami's glowing skyline from the water.

Palm Springs gives you a taste of desert life where Hollywood stars vacation under 350 days of annual sunshine amid desert modernism architecture. Solvang's windmill-lined streets bring Danish culture to California with traditional Scandinavian bakeries and hygge atmosphere. San Francisco's Chinatown extends beyond the Dragon Gate, and you can try dim sum at Good Mong Kok Bakery while walking through colorful lantern-filled shops.