On Tuesday, we decided to learn about Savannah by hopping aboard the Old Town Trolley for the very informative tour around the historic downtown areas. Savannah (and the GA colony) was founded by General James Oglethorpe in 1733 and the city was laid out to contain 24 green area squares with houses and buildings around them (22 squares still remain).
The tour lasted about two hours, contained 14 hop-on-hop-off stops and went by nearly, if not all, of the squares and their neighborhoods. No pics taken.
After seeing it on the tour, we drove back down along the river to E. River Street (tourist area) for a little shopping and lunch. Rather than shop, I got a beer and sat at an outside table at the Savannah Riverhouse Restaurant where I could people watch and see the river and I was soon rewarded with a big container ship heading for the port of Savannah, which is one of the four largest in the country.
Everyone enjoyed their meals except the crab cakes were very dry and I would have to call this tourist food – okay food at pretty high prices for the lunch menu.
After lunch, Cindy and I headed back to the RV to tend to the dogs and the others hopped back on the trolley to go back to some of the places we’d seen earlier. It’s been in the mid to high 80’s during the day but cools off nicely as the sun sets.
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a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.
Larry
4/23/19 event dates
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Savanah is a nice place to visit we did that over 20 years ago. Love those container ships, they are amazing.
ReplyDeleteHi Larry, We love Savannah! Its a beautiful historic old city with lots of good food. Love great shrimp and grits! Love the ship photo...one of my favorite blog features... Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
ReplyDeleteRiding the Trolley would be so fun! The food looked tasty - it's too bad it ended up being tourist food.
ReplyDeleteThe hop on and off are a great way to see a place.
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