Monday May 21, 2012

Hello All,
Today was a fun touristy day. We took a tour of Savannah on the"Old Savannah Tours" line. They are open air trolley cars with a narrating driver. Learned alot about Savannah that I didn't know, saw where Forrest Gump sat in the Square waiting for the bus to take him to Jen-ney's house..     Saw the restaurant where Jen-ney worked when she saw Forrest running across the US...Actually, Forrest came on our trolley looking for Jen-ney, with his suitcase and box of chocolates... It was a fun surprise when he ran onto the trolley and had a conversation with our driver... :)
Saw the statue from "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and the house that Kevin Spacer's character lived in... Alot of movies were filmed in Savannah!
Saw the founder of the Girl Scouts house and learned that she founded the girl scouts 9 years before women even had the right to vote! That is impressive....

We had lunch at "The Lady & Sons" restaurant, which if you don't know, is Paula Deen's restaurant. The food was amazing! When you sit down a lady comes over with a basket of Ho-cakes and Cheddar biscuits and gives you one of each just to get you started! Then you can have the buffet or order from the menu...Well our tiny tummies could not have that delicious buffet of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, greens, green beans, fried okra, macaroni and cheese,apple pie, pecan pie, key lime pie and some kind of berry cobbler! I have to say today may have been the first time I wished for my bigger stomach back! HA! Gary and I shared a magnificent pulled pork sandwich which came with fried circles of mashed potatoes that were coated in either panko bread crumbs or corn flakes...Either way they were amazing! That meal is another thing I am able to cross off my bucket.

We strolled up and down the streets window and real shopping and then headed down to River St. to finish up our shopping, hopped back on the trolley and headed back to our car. A fun day that came to an end to fast! :) We have one more day here and plan to go to the Railroad Museum tomorrow and maybe out to the coast....

Wednesday we are off to Atlanta to Gallery 63 for an auction (we love that show and can't wait to enjoy the auction!). We will also visit our friends Ralph and Maree who traveled with us in '09 as they live in Atlanta. Looking forward to spending time with them again.

See ya on the Road,
Ter :)
　
　
"From the driver's seat...' Nice easy day, I let someone else do the driving today. We took a trolley tour of Savannah, so happy we did that. The first driver we had was so enthused about the town and had a lot to say about a lot of the city. We were able to have lunch at Paula Deen's restaurant, had a very nice window table on the ground floor and shared a pulled pork sandwich with what appeared to be deep fried mashed potatoes (what's not to like about that???) and tasty cole slaw.

We finished the tour day by walking back to River Street and did some shopping, picking up a couple gifts and a couple chocolates for later tonight for ourselves.....yum!

I did a little car maintenance tonight since it's running a little warm, even at 70 mph when it should be running cool with all that air going though the radiator. I think the thermostat is the culprit so I removed the moving parts and re-installed it. I also plugged a couple holes in the front bulkhead to force more air where it should be. A quick drive tonight showed dramatic improvement. It's not going to be getting any cooler so good cooling is imperative to my bride's comfort and my well being. It'll be interesting to see how it works in the heat of the day tomorrow.

One more day in Savannah, then heading off to Atlanta for an auction and to visit our dear friends, Ralph and Maree Williams who were travelmates on our woodie tour in 2009. Anxious to see them and the sights of Atlanta.......

Hey is that Forrest Gump??

My friend Paula and I......