Les and Marcia's Bohemian Life: Savannah – Not an inconvenience at all

The trip from St Augustine toSavannah is easy and quick. Just a few hours and we were set up in on new location in Hardeeville RV Park, Hardeeville GA. This is another park that is filled with hiking trails and lots of room for Brady the squirrel chaser.

We have only slotted one day for our trip to Savannah so we opted for the tried and true Old Town Trolley. The policy is a bit different from St Augustine, only one day for the same price as apposed to three days in FL. We only had one day, but just wanted to throw that price hike out there.

Despite the age of Savannah it is quite easy to figure out. It was settled in 1732 and planned out in squares. Each of the 22 squares has a park in the middle surrounded by housing and businesses. Over the years a few squares have been lost to new Federal buildings and parking lots. The ease of figuring out the town is still there. The plan was put in to place by founder James Edwards Oglethorpe from England. There must be something mellow in the air. The Indians welcomed the English settlers. Then during the Civil war Savannah surrendered (they said it was a Christmas gift) to Gen Sherman. This did stop Sherman from burning Savannah down and allows us to see many of the original buildings today. By now you know we love military forts….wellSavannah does have one, but it was never really used, and isn’t a focus point here. When speaking of the civil war, here in Savannah it is referred to as “Time of the great inconvenience”.

Church steeple from Gump

Home of Girl Scout founder; Juliette Gordon Low

The Old Town Trolley

This town is full of great homes and I am sure famous people lived in them all - but heck they are all pretty

WWII Memorial along the water front

City Hall

Steps are eveywhere

The Cotton Exchange

Now office space

Vietnam Memorial

Yep - this is Savannahs Light house

The Waving Girl welcomed sailors to Savannah for 40 years

Now she is slapping Les on the head

Or your brother

We loved walking the docks. Formerly, the Cotton Exchange filled with monuments, fun shops, and taverns. We choose the Boars Heads. The best bacon wrapped shrimp ever and the Georgia Brown has been added to our “How can we make this”list. We could have eaten at Paula Deans restaurant. However it is against our rules to stand in line for food. You can make reservations but you stand in line to make those too. I still love you Paula. Ps. A Paula Dean tour is available.

Great cardio

Pretty fancy for Bohemians

There is masonry work everywhere. The steps may not pass code today – but, what a good little workout. It is easy to just be taken with how pretty this town is. Nothing really stands out to me it is just a very pretty cohesive town. The Museum is located in the Old train station and is a beautiful don’t miss spot. Forest Gumps Bench is there (or at least one of them)

Savannah history museum

The bench ( or one of several)

It was a great day of walking and sightseeing. My favorite accidental part was when we wandered into a candy store. They were wrapping freshly pulled taffy. It was squeezed out of a tube, twisted in a wrapper machine, rolled down a shoot, dropped in a bin, the bin raised to a tread mill in the ceiling, taken to the next room and dropped in the candy bin for sale. Plus – the candy man was tossing taffy to us. Yeah, he was tossing it to other people too.

There really is so much to see and do here. So glad we came and are very much looking forward to coming back.

Our RV is only 20 miles from Hilton Head so we drove over for the day. After traveling in bumper to bumper traffic, and seeing nothing but Golf Resorts and brief glimpses of bayou type water bodies, we did what we do best. We stopped for lunch at the Crazy Crab and enjoyed the beautiful day. If we ever go back, I’ll call ahead to get the secret password or handshake. I know there must be more there.

When in doubt - eat lunch