Savannah, GA-June 24, 2011

What an incredible and wonderful day this has been. After a busy day getting a prescription filled for Jerry from Publix in Orange Beach, we headed to Savannah, to play tourist. What a interesting city. It is big and very busy and filled with semi trucks and hot and steamy and very different from any place we have been. First the streets are old bricks, cobblestone and rocks. It is so hard to walk on and even harder to drive. The main downtown street, Oglethorpe, is also a truck route. So, in the midst of all of these tourists, you have huge semi trucks running red lights and trying to force their way through intersections. Pedestrians have the right of way, but sometimes you can be dead wrong. We walked in the intense heat until we nearly collapsed. Then we saw people streaming into this restaurant called Moon River (no, not the Andy Williams' Moon River) and we were so happy we were there. It was a 200 year old building that has been a host of businesses, including a coal storage facility, a flour mill, a hotel and now a restaurant. It was there that we learned, in Savannah, the Civil War is not called that. It is known as the War of Northern Aggression. I laughed for a long time over that one. I've never heard that in my life. The day started with such stress, after a night of rain, but ended on such a happy note. It was so much fun. We will probably go back before we leave. We missed many stores. When we got back to our parking place, the Downtown Development Group had a band playing music at a huge square. The band was called Train Wreck. Maybe one day we will say we saw them when they were not famous! They were quite good. It was a terrific ending to a terrific day. We look forward to what tomorrow holds.