Savannah, GA
                                                                           

River Street downtown Savannah

    We are here for a couple more days of provisioning and being tourists before we start again on The Loop. I am excited to spend some time in Savannah, but Bill is ready to move on.  He has spent a month in Savannah this year  altogether with him arriving 2 weeks ahead of me, coming back again last Nov. to check on and clean the boat, and another week last May spent preparing the boat for storage.  
                                                                         

    - Hinkley's has let Bill use the courtesy car for a week now free for unlimited amount of time each day. Apparently no one else needed that car. What a deal!
-After a couple of years on the loop we have figured out the  best thing for us to spend a couple of hours each day doing our own thing.  Today I went to downtown Savannah and went shopping, saw lots of historic buildings and visited a really old historic civil war cemetery .  Bill went to the boat show.  I love history - he hates it. The funny thing is I never used to, but when it's everywhere its hard not to become interested   It's going to be "trying" for him with everything being "old " here on the  East coast and me wanting to see it all.
-River street is a bar hoppers paradise.  You can drink on the street  so people drink while shopping and wander from one bar into the next. Happy hour specials everywhere.
                                                                             

-Went to Tybee Island (the beach playground for this area) yesterday to the very famous Breakfast Club. Everything here is served with grits - no potatoes.  I didn't know what grits were.  They are made out of corn, look like cream of wheat cereal and usually have butter, salt, pepper or cheese on it.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner here in the South they serve grits.  All the food here is fried!!  Bill says he hasn't seen anything green since he arrived.
                                                                                   

The whole historic waterfront  is like this.  Buildings are old and made out of brick with cobblestone streets. 

     -After numerous trips to Walmart, Lowes and West Marine we are ready to head out  tomorrow.  Yeah!!! We are going to Hilton Head Island, which is about 30 miles up the Intercoastal Waterway.

                          Really old cemetary with graves of Civil War generals, downtown Savannah