Savannah, GA
We left West Virginia for the longest drive of our trip, about 8 hours. We got in around 8:00 and found our hotel and I took one of the best showers of my life having camped for 4 nights in a row. Then we walked around for a bit to find dinner and ended up on the Riverfront at a Crab Shack. We had outstanding seafood, drinks, salads, a crab soup and a shrimp and corn soup. We sat out on a balcony and had a very romantic dinner. We started walking back towards the hotel and went to Riverstreet sweets. We sampled really amazing pecan pralines and white chocolate covered nuts which we bought. Alex got an ice cream cone and we got a white chocolate covered dog bone with sprinkles for Maggie. We just went back to the hotel because everything around there closed around 10:00 which was weird.
The next morning we woke up and took to our bikes for a tour of Savannah's historic district. They have tons of trolley tours which we didn't want to do so we took a map and a brochure and rode to the good places. Historic Savannah is a neat city, with a lot of charm and old southern beauty. We learned that Savannah was one of the south's first planned cities. It has about 25 garden squares intersecting street after street and the city is covered in giant oak trees to keep things shady. We went to Savannah's history museum and they had lots about the history of all American wars and Savannah's role in each. It was neat but we didn't stay long.
We made our way to the famous Forsyth Park, and could feel the essence of Forrest Gump, which is where the bench scenes from the movie were shot. We had an outdoor lunch at Mellow Mushroom and then found Paula Deen's place to get coffee for Jocilyn. There was a lot more to see and I'm sure learn since we taught ourselves but we had a good half day.
Then we went to Tybee Island, a 20 minute drive to Savannah's closest beach town. We spent the afternoon on the beach. Alex was swimming and some dolphins swam passed him about 20 feet out. I pointed to them and as Alex turned around you could see an entire pod swim around him. There must have been no fewer than 20 dolphins, maybe as many as 30ish. They were so cool, swimming in packs of 2-4 and all in a line parallel with the beach. They were really active jumping and occasionally smacking their tails on the water. My guess was they were feeding. I've never seen so many dolphins in one place. They swam past and then turned around and came right back. It was really cool, and Alex tried to get close but they stayed just out of his reach. I couldn't get a very good picture.
We rode our bikes around the island and found Marlin Monroe's and had dinner on the beach. We had a beautiful seaside meal and had more great seafood. We had the best coconut shrimp with pina colada dip ever! And shared a grouper sandwich with pesto mayo (new taste) and crab quesadillas. Then we ended it with a key lime pie. This is the view from our table.
We had a great afternoon and evening but when we went to our "beach camping" site we were less enthused. The beach camping was two blocks off the beach in a mostly rv camp site where we were in the woods with tons of mosquitoes and the foliage blocked all wind so the cool mountain camping we were used to turned in to hot and sweaty sleep with stagnant air. We tried to go to sleep immediately so once we woke up we could get out of there, but we got a phone call 30 minutes into our sleep and Alex had trouble sleeping again. At one point he suggested packing it up and leaving, or sleeping in the car, or sleeping on the beach itself and I almost went with it. But in the end we decided we'd rough it since that's what this trip was about so we toughed it out. As soon as we woke up the next morning we were off to St. Augustine for the 4th of July weekend.
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