Savannah, SC

Savannah Oaks RV Resort

June 14^th through June 15^st

We pulled into Savannah for a quick one-day and one-night stay. The campground is a little rustic, but has great cable TV. Having good TV may seem like a minor issue, but we often go for long periods with limited reception on our trips. So, it’s nice when we can get some cable stations and catch up on what is going on in the world. As soon as we got the RV set up and plugged in (needed to get the AC going), we took off for downtown Savannah.

We signed up for a city tour to get the general overview and history of Savannah. As in Charleston, there are many beautiful homes with a lot of history attached to them. The homes in Savannah were spared from burning in Sherman’s march to the sea because of some innovative community leaders. When they heard Sherman was approaching they went out and met him before he came into town. They offered the union army their houses to be used as quarters for the troops and as a command headquarters for Sherman. They proposed the idea of why burn our houses, when we are willing to give them to you. It worked, and the houses were spared. Ironically, in the house Sherman used for his use, he charged the owner rent because the owner stayed on in the house during the occupation.

Savannah is laid out incorporating twenty four different squares, which give the city a unique and warm feeling. The tour guide told us about the many movies that were made in Savannah. One of the big ones was “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” with Kevin Spacey. It turns out that the story is based in truth. We saw the house where many of the events in the movie took place, including the murder. Another movie, “Something to Talk About” with Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, and Robert Duvall, had a scene in front of a restaurant named Six Pence. We had dinner there at the end of the day. The guide said they had the best French onion soup and Rueben sandwich in the state. He might have been right: We shared one of each, and they were both pretty good. We also saw the church that Forest Gump is sitting in front of at the beginning of the movie while the feather flutters about. We later saw the bench he was sitting on in a museum. The city decided it needed to be inside, because it would surely be stolen if left unattended. The tour trolley stopped at St. Johns Catholic Church to let us go inside. It is a magnificent church with double steeples, gorgeous stained class, soaring ceilings, and many detailed statues.

Some of the buildings have circular entry stairs going to the entry door, one on the right side and one on the left. The men went up the left side and the women used the right side. This was done so there was no chance that the men would catch a glimpse of the ladies' ankles.

After our tour, and before we went to dinner, we went to a Scottish Pub, in the City Market area, for happy hour. We had our first experience with Scottish Eggs, which are hardboiled eggs wrapped in sausage, rolled in flour and parmesan, and then deep fried. They were surprisingly good. The bar maid was very friendly and recommended the eggs. Near the City Market is the River Front district where most of the nightlife in Savannah is located. We saw a nice house for sale that had just been reduced from three and a half million dollars to a mere two million. We considered buying it, but at a small 10,000 square feet we did not think there would be enough room for the two of us.