Savannah

Drove the 117 miles from Charleston down to Savannah, GA mostly in a downpour. Very slow going at times. We arrived and stayed at Red Gate Farms

where campers are just dying to get in:

We were parked behind the RV Office in a cozy spot:

Almost by ourselves with access to the Dish satellite! Yay! TV again after weeks of nothing. The farm/campground had a lot to offer:

The place had a pool that Katrina and I got to utilize by ourselves.

Red Gate Farms is primary a wedding venue and has three separate houses that can hist a wedding party.

Since it was Katrina’s and mine 35 Wedding Anniversary we had special dinner plans at Husk.

All dressed up with a place to go! Their specialty drinks were fabulous!

We had a wonderful meal and evening! The sommelier suggested wine with our selected entrees.

Perfect with Katrina’s pork chop and my fish!

Happy 35th Anniversary Babe!!!

Since the intent of our adventure is to trade possessions for experiences we found something to do the next day that really seemed to fit into that philosophy and to what we tend to do:

Right? I guess others think the same way as there were over twenty of us on the tour.

We all met up for our first stop (and drink) at a place called SixPence Pub, an English bar.

Our tour guide was a local and very knowledgeable regarding the ghost stories, buildings and local lore. Although I don’t believe that he personally believed the haunted stories. Our next stop (and drink) was McDonough’s, an Irish Pub.

From there we walked (not crawled, regardless of the tour name) over to the Colonial Cemetery. Lots of stories, mostly from the Civil War era where Union soldiers camped in the cemetery and reported hearing all sorts of eerie sounds!

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) revived the cemetery in 1913 as you can see on the gate.

Our next stop was at 17hundred90

where we had a specialty ”Flu Shot”

It tasted like a very horseradishy Bloody Mary!

From there we went to the downtown area and stopped at the Savannah Taphouse.

That’s where our haunted tour ended. We thought of it more as an excuse to drink than to hear ghostly stories. It was still a fun experience!

On the way to dinner the following evening we caught a great sunset at the park:

We had reservations at The Grey as we had heard that it was excellent.

It was called The Grey because it was built in the old Greyhound Lines building. Check out the Gate numbers in this photo:

The menu was a ”Prix Fixe” type where you had to pick one item from each of these three categories: Dirt, Water, and Pasture for the mere price if $75 each. We couldn’t find anything that we wanted to eat on the limited menu. They had another option for bone-in rib-eyes priced at $4 per ounce. We opted to split the steak and asked for a 30 ounce steak. I know, $120 but still better than the $150! Our server returned and told us that they were out of the smaller ones and only had a 38 ounce one now. We ordered it but felt like we were bait and switched. The steak was good but it took about an hour to get! Katrina talked with one of the managers and got our bill reduced. She is so good in speaking her mind! Since it was getting late (past 10 o’clock) our valet brought us our keys for the truck and told us that it was parked in the street outside of the restaurant. Upon leaving we realized that the valet didn’t even lock our vehicle! Based on our experience, we would not recommend The Grey!

The next day Katrina had signed up for a pickleball event at the Savannah Country Club.

It had a jungle theme and best dressed won a gift:

It was too bad that the event got rained out as I was very interested in watching the giraffe play pickleball!

We decided to drive out to Tybee Island to check out the scene the next day. As we were walking around we spied these beautiful murals:

They has a wonderful pier gazebo:

We learned something that we didn’t know before, US Highway 80 travels coast to coast:

We grabbed lunch at Pier 16:

We left that area and headed over to see the lighthouse.

Yep, we climbed up! Check out the views:

Where’s Waldo (Ed)?

On the return to Red Gate we stopped in the river district of Savannah and after a little shopping and a lot of walking we found The Grove where two guys were singing.

After a couple of drinks we continued on our way home. The next day we packed up and headed out somewhat early as we wanted to get to St. Augustine, FL to catch a glimpse of the Artemis I launch.