Thursday, October 31, 2013

SAVANNAH GA ON MY MIND!



This is the RV Park
                       SAVANNAH GEORGIA

All the squares were lined with huge trees.
Where the Spanish Moss hangs from trees.  We were warned not to take any home with us, it is full of chiggers!!!  That reminds me of the sign in the State Park up in North Carolina.  "Don't feed the ticks".  We didn't!    Anyway back to Georgia.   Everybody that we have met on the road recommended Savannah as a must see.  We spent all  yesterday downtown riding around in a trolley and walking the streets.  It was a real step back in time.  Wonderful old mansions and buildings.  Lots of them from the mid 1700's.  After the Revolutionary War it became a great place to grow cotton and rice.  We have seen some cotton fields along the freeway, but haven't had a chance to take a picture yet.
Old home turned into museum
Lots of plant life on everybody's porch

Independent Presbyterian Church  1889-1890
This is the Davenport House Museum 1820
Notice the double entry steps.  Back in the day it was disrespectful for a man to look at a woman's legs or ankles as they were going up stairs.  So one side was for the men and the other side for the
ladies.  A far cry from today, right?
We ate lunch at Joe's Crab House over looking the Savannah River.  It is the fourth busiest port in the US.  Vern saw several dolphins bobbing in the river.  I missed seeing them.
                                         They had some river cruises

              The Waving Girl Statue * 1972          The story goes, her first love went to sea, never to return.  For 43 years she met every ship that entered the port with a waving towel during the day and a lantern by night.                                            






The Olympic flame burned here during the1996
Atlanta Summer Olympics for all the boating
competition. 


City Exchange Fire Bell
  

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