Blogs from Savannah, Georgia, United States, North America - page 6

As budget travelers, we’re suckers for free housing. We received an invitation to stay at a family beach house and we were ecstatic, but the catch? It was in Florida (Destin, to be exact) and we only had Friday thru Sunday. But obstacles are meant to be hurdled so we decided on a whim to go for it. To kill two birds with one stone, we also wanted to stop in Savannah for a day; one of the tricks we've learned from our travels is that to save money, you need to combine trips. Hence, we love finding long layovers in a new city to add an extra destination without paying more. Since Savannah is conveniently located off Interstate 95 along our way to Destin, it was an obvious decision to swing by and pay a ... read more

The start, Pooler Georgia 31322 as its become known to us. Our daughter, Candice played ball at Thomas University, a small Southern Georgia community. She met, fell in love and married Mike Vitello. Candice and Mike have a brand new baby boy, Benjamin lives at 31322. Kathy and I were down for the birth, well actually for a total of 4 months. Kathy and Kim are both retired and just pursuing the good life. Now today started off with a setback, no title papers arrived in the overnight mail. Seems the previous owner had them locked in his Uncles safe at home. Sooo that meant breakfast at the Omellete House in Pooler, now this isnt urban spoon, but I will certainly recommend the Southern cooking, hospitality and prices here. Lots off y'alls and honey's, I have ... read more

We spent all day at the Birthplace and the First headquarters of Girl Scout. We met troops from Indiana and Texas and saw scouts from lots of other places as well. Check out our photos on Facebook... read more

Geo: 32.0808, -81.0907We protested about leaving Charleston, having little idea of what was ahead, but Savannah Historic Town was beautiful and after a slightly cheesy tram car ride round the city to get ourselves orientated we walked oursleves to exhaustion that afternoon and the next day. We stayed in a comfortable row (terraced) house and explored the old squares, museums and colonial cemetery with the help of a walking tour guide. Many of the old houses (60 in total) have been adopted by SCAD - Savannah College of Art and Design- which seems partly responsible for the city's regeneration, together with donations of beautiful mansions to the state by wealthy Women, fo Museums and Art galleries. I understood better how this came to pass when a guide explained that women with a wealthy inheritance could own ... read more

We lucked out....it didn't rain today. Because of this, we had an excellent day walking Savannah and seeing what it has to offer to the pedestrian tourist. We began the day with the excellent deluxe (continental) breakfast at The Marshall House, which included toast, bagels, cereals, oats, fruit and even two types of quiche. It was a nice spread. We finished up, got ready and headed out into the clamy and humid cloudy day in Savannah. I have to say, I was worried about the heat here in Savannah, but the clouds have been our friend; it hasn't been very hot at all. Nice, quite humid, but totally manageable for a tourist pedestrian. We began by walking Bull St towards Forsyth Park. On the way we saw a few more of the squares we didn't get ... read more