Augusta, after the Masters
Hurrying is a concept that’s anathema in Augusta, Ga., said Andrea Sachs in The Washington Post. During any week that Georgia’s second-largest city isn’t hosting April’s annual Masters golf championship, the pace is decidedly leisurely. I learned that during a languid stroll on the city’s pretty, multitiered Riverwalk. Popping into the Morris Museum of Art, I had almost an hour to admire the hyper-realist watercolors of a South Carolina artist, but a friendly guard invited me to return for free on another day so I wouldn’t have to rush. Another “lazy, lazy afternoon” was spent on the Augusta Canal in an electric-powered replica of a 19th-century mule-drawn vessel. Only a privileged few ever wrangle tee times at the famous Augusta National Golf Club, but locals who’ve made disk golf a popular pastime are far more inclusive. To get in a match, just head to one of several courses “and look for the folks chasing rainbow-colored saucers through the trees.”
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