Where Are the Fast, Easy, Reasonably Priced Restaurants With Wi-Fi?

that serve dinner? We're looking for a place where we can have a light, fast meal after working out at the gym, and it's suprisingly hard to do. We want a place where you can go in, quickly order a meal and get served fast and visit a few websites and play Words With Friends via wifi while we eat. And hopefully something other than fried burgers and fried potatoes. (Nothing wrong with burger & fries but they are NOT health foods.)

So far what we got is Shane's Rib Shack up in Alpharetta and Barberito's and Your Pie in Roswell, all of which fill the bill nicely. The big problem is that fast, nice, fun places that have wifi generally serve lunch only. (There's also Moe's in Roswell, very near Your Pie, but it's Tex-Mex like Barberito''s and we like Barberito's better.)

Anyone got a recommendation on some similar restaurants not too far from the Roswell Historic District area? (Restaurants IN the Roswell Historic District tend to be expensive, not have wifi, and hard to get into ... but we would love to hear of an exception).

Roswell Is Paved In Gold

Study in green, black and yellow with white stripe No. 1

Every spring Roswell is filled with a golden haze. Unfortunately, it is not actual gold, or anything like it. It's the sort of thing you'd really rather NOT be covered in, but no one has any choice about that in Roswell for a few weeks in spring. Find out all about it here.

The Best Little Business Name in Alpharetta

Best sign in Alpharetta!

While doing Santa's work in Alpharetta, Georgia, a town just to the north of Roswell (so close that you could pass in and out of both cities several times on a less-than-one-mile stretch of some roads at one time) I came across this sign outside a hair salon. Could not resist taking a photo. It's great when a business shows a sense of fun about itself!

Helen, Georgia: Bavaria, Southern Style!

A Bavarian mountain village -- southern style!

We traveled to Helen, Georgia, to see the sights, eat the food and smell the boiled peanuts cooking! And if we saw some fall leaf color on the way and witnessed bucolic splendor (including the Loch Ness Kudzu Monster) then so be it! Check out our copiously photographed report here!

Ghost Face Appears in Roswell Georgia Bushes

In the lower right of this photo a ghostly face looms out of the bushes in a
photo of  Roswell, Georgia, vegetation.

Who is the ghostly faces peering out of these bushes? How did it get there? Is Roswell really as haunted as it seems?

Lunch at Bai Wei with the Ghost of Nirvana

The ghostly image of the word "Nirvana" appears superimposed on the
door to the Bai Wei restaurant in this semi-unretouched photograph. Scary!

Roswell, Georgia, is considered by some to be the second most haunted city in America. I am a natural skeptic in this area, but when I went to the Bai Wei restaurant for some tasty cucumber maki rolls and some egg drop soup, I discovered the ghost of Nirvana. Really! Read the article and know the thrill of the supernatural and the zing of well made mango chicken!

The Planet Roswell Website is Up and Running!

Spaceship not being seen over Roswell City Hall in Planet Roswell website.

The Planet Roswell website is up and running, with three articles already online and more coming down the pike.Visit the place and check out our article welcoming folks to the site!

Let the Weirdness Continue!

Turtleman removes his head and takes a break as a Princess shops in the background.
Just some of the sights to be seen at AWA.

 A couple of weeks after the Labor Day bash at Dragoncon, anime (Japanese cartoon) fans throughout the Southeast get their freak on at Anime Weekend Atlanta, aka AWA. Held at the Cobb Gallerie in Atlanta, a city near Roswell, AWA boasts 15,000 or so attendees who dress as their favorite anime characters (see above) and watch anime videos, meet anime voice over stars, attend anime related events and generally have a great deal of fun. More pics and so forth at my website, real soon now.

Roswell, Georgia: Area 51-enabled!

It is a little known fact that Roswell Georgia, has its own Area 51. And unlike that OTHER Area 51 in New Mexico, ours really exists! I mean, they may have an actual area in Roswell, New Mexico that they CALL Area 51, but let's face it, the things reputed to have gone on there, never really went on there. Perhaps there IS something going on at their Area 51, but just try buying a ticket to see it, and then actually getting to see it!

Whereas in our Area 51, you pays your money, you gets your money's worth. Case closed, baby!

Welcome To Planet Roswell

A seemingly innocent tree-lined street in Roswell's Historic District.Note lack of UFOs. Ghosts not shown.

Roswell, Georgia, is a city that sits under a cloud ... a cloud of UFOs! The UFOs are not in Roswell, Georgia, they are located ...in people's minds, at least ... in that OTHER Roswell: Roswell, New Mexico.

This is not to say that Roswell is not a perfectly fine city, in fact, it is a bustling suburban Atlanta city with a tremendously successful ghost industry, by the standard of ghost industries.(It's always great when the dead can support the living, ask any trust fund baby.) This blog and its associated website will examine the city of Roswell and its environs, and by environs of course we mean anywhere we please.

But still, when people think "Roswell" they think of "Roswell, New Mexico" not "Roswell, Georgia," and this must change! Roswell Georgia may not have UFOs, but it's got a lot of stuff that Roswell, New Mexico has ... like vegetation!