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We are Karen and Emily, a mother and daughter from Arkansas. We love the people, food, and places of the south and look forward to sharing them with you here! From the well-known to the obscure come with us as we explore the southern states.
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Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These old-fashioned oatmeal chocolate chip cookies have crisp edges, chewy middles, and just enough raisins to balance all that chocolate. They are the best! We used to make these all the time when I was a kid and I remembered them being one of my favorites. My sisters and I made them so often around…
Hey y’all! We are Karen and Emily!
We are a mother and daughter from Arkansas. We love to explore, eat at hole in the wall restaurants, meet interesting people, visit small towns, and get out in nature. We started Somewhere Down South in order to have a place to share the food, people, places, and stories of the southern US.
Our goal is for you to come along with us as we strive to experience and understand one of the most unusual, complicated, quirky, misinterpreted, difficult, underrated, and beautiful areas of the United States.
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Things to Love About Rosemary Beach Florida
There are many lovely beach communities situated along scenic county 30A. Rosemary Beach Florida is at the far eastern end of the this 18 mile stretch of road and is, in our opinion, one of the prettiest and most livable of the beach towns. Here are just a few of the MANY things to love…
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Seaside Florida: The Perfect Beach Town
Seaside Florida is one of the most famous beach communities on 30A perhaps because it looks exactly like what you might imagine if you were imagining the perfect beach town. This was completely intentional. Although Seaside may look as if it has grown organically for a century the development actually didn’t begin here until the…
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17 Delicious 30A Restaurants that You Will Want to Try!
There are so many great 30A restaurants to choose from! Often the food in touristy places is just not that good. This is not true of 30A. You will discover that there are some amazing restaurants on 30A. Of course, many of the 30A restaurants are seafood centric. You would expect that in a beach…
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Review of Shunk Gulley Oyster Bar on 30A
There are so many great restaurants on 30A and Shunk Gulley Oyster Bar is one of our favorites. In fact, on our most recent trip to 30A we ate here three times and stopped by once to have a drink with an ocean view. So, yes, we went there 4 different times during a 1…
