Savannah

 I’ve decided to provide this trip update in the form of a blog update … just because!

We arrived here in Savannah, GA last Saturday, a day earlier than originally planned but we were trying to outrun the severe cold front that moved south into South Carolina and even northern Georgia. We were successful in avoiding the bitter cold but we did get a bunch of rain and wind on Sunday that continued into Monday.

Yesterday was a pretty nice sunny day with a high in the mid 60s and today was even warmer into the 70s … so we got out and accomplished some sightseeing. Yesterday we visited the site of one of the original Georgia settlements when English King George II granted this area to a group of trustees and settlers arrived in early 1733. We visited the State Historic Site of Wormsloe, settled by some of these early settlers led by a carpenter, surveyor, physician named Noble Jones. The first thing you see as you enter Wormsloe in a 2 mile straight drive lined on both sides by some 400 live oak trees planted in the early 1890s.

After a slow drive down the entrance road we stopped at the visitors center for the always informative movie and a small museum … before moving on to a scenic loop walk.We viewed the ruins of the original settlement house built by Noble Jones around 1740.

All in all … a nice morning walk learning a bit of Georgia history.

Today we decided to take the Savannah Trolley Tour of the downtown Savannah Historic District. We took this tour back in 2012 during one of our first visits to this unique city and we thought it would be fun to do again. As is usual with these tours … the tour guide makes each one different and unique. Our tour guide Yule did a nice job keeping us entertained while teaching us a bit of history and dodging all the traffic! We had seen all the beautiful squares and buildings before but the narration made it all seem new.

We even got to view a good size container ship coming up the river to the Port of Savannah … that was a first!

Tomorrow we move parking spots to a different RV Park for a few days and then we will return here for most of next week. Don’t ask why … it’s a long story $$.

So that’s what’s up with us. 

I made it into shorts today but it looks like I will be back in long pants tomorrow when the high will be back in the 40s with some potential freezing rain in the forecast for tomorrow night.

Ain’t winter fun … even in the relatively Deep South!