Local Living Tours & Trips in Sun Belt

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.

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.

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.

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.

Drive the famous Route 66 through eight states from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, stopping at retro diners with neon signs in Williams and the well-known 'Standin' on the Corner' spot in Winslow. Walk the Nature Valley Trail in Joshua Tree National Park among the unusual yucca trees and massive boulders in the Mojave Desert. Spend time poolside in Palm Springs, the celebrity desert town with 350 days of sunshine each year, before heading to the beaches of Venice and Malibu.