June 11, 2021 Savannah

 

 

 

June 11, 2021

 

MEOWT!  My humans let me out, but I am still tied up.  Loud noises are coming from the sky!  And stuff is falling!  HUMANS!  Let me hide under this car.  HUMANS!  HELP ME HUMANS!  I AM SCARED!  My maternal human opened the door.  MOMMY LET ME IN!

I took a quick walk this morning and we readied Hannah for an early departure.  We are heading to Savannah and we are going to try and get one of the two RV sites that the Elks Club has.  It is only 114 miles away according to Lady Gagarmin. We head onto the Savannah Highway away from the traffic.  It is green with lots of open space. There is a home here, a car lot there all spaced way far apart.  Soon we see lots of forest with varying sizes of pine trees, obviously due to forest management with logging.  There are tidal marshes, streams, and ponds with lotus flowers.  It is a very peaceful drive until we get to I95, which will take us into Savannah.

We stopped at rest area for Spouse and Rudy to use the restroom, then let Lady Gagarmin steer us to the Elks Club.  Oh… we see a rig there…   but that is the only one!  The other space is ours as long as we can shoehorn ourselves into it.  At first Spouse pulled forward… oh, that is not going to work so he had to back out, turn around then back in – easy as pie, right?  Let’s just say there was a lot of back and forth before we were able to get situated.  It is pretty hard to back a beast with precision but Spouse ultimately got it done.

                                        

Our neighbor Rosemary graduated the same year as I did from Granada Hills High School (I was Grant High).  Maybe we know some of the same peeps… Her husband Dick told us he had real trouble trying to get an RV site in Savannah, so he was happy the Elks had room. 

Once we were set up, we went to the Visitor Center in Savannah and hopped on a city tour.

Like Charleston, Savannah is rich with history from the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.  The historic district is strictly monitored so that all external architecture conforms to period standards.  What stands out about Savannah are the beautiful squares set up throughout the district.  All of them are beautifully landscaped, some with live oaks that witnessed both wars.  And it seems each square has some statue in the middle commemorating one thing or another. 

The Savannah River allows the city to be one of the busiest ports in the country.  The river district has roads paved with stones that were once used as ballast for the sailing vessels.  They came in with rocks, off loaded them, then loaded the cotton, which created ballast.

We hopped off the bus for lunch at the Café in the market district.  Shrimp creole over grits with collards  for me (and it was beyond fabulous!) and Spouse had a shrimp with lemon pasta that was great too.  It is warm and humid, but there is a breeze, and there are ceiling fans so it really was quite comfortable.  We finished the tour and headed back, doing a couple of errands along the way.

 

                                     

 

 

 

 

Rumble rumble… is that thunder?  It’s raining.  Where is Rudy?  Spouse is watching him through the window.  He is ok so Spouse says… I opened the door… poor guy flew up the stairs.

I have been asked about why we use the Elks.  IN this case, we don’t really know how long we are staying.  It may be 3 days, or maybe 4.  It is a weekend, and this is one busy town from what we hear so for us, this is less aggravating.  It is cheaper, but we don’t have sewer hookups, or a dumping station, so we have to be somewhat prudent with water usage, but we don’t have to be austere.  As for the black tank, we won’t come close to filling that even if we get dysentery!  Many of the Elks that have RV sites are in great locations.  Here, we are a about 10 miles from town, but so are most of the RV parks.  And now that schools are out, we expect it to get busier in RV parks. 

But alas, when we leave here, we will be turning west, towards home.