We made it to Savannah today, but we are feeling the stress of constant driving... We are Tired! The car too! It was like, oh more driving today...Great! HA!
We went to the Hunley Submarine restoration project today and that was pretty cool, but sad as well... I can't imagine being the men that said they would go down in a hand cranked sub for the first time...How scary was that...It was an amazing piece of imagination and a great feat of enginering. Gar gives the website address below and it is worth a look.
We are staying at hotel about 3 miles from downtown Savannah, Brad, let me say again, you wouldn't have gotten out of the car! But it is a lovely hotel inside, the staff is so friendly and they have a shuttle to downtown.... Glad I got out! :)
We went down to River Street to have dinner and had a fun evening down there window shopping and trying to decide where to eat. We settled on "Dockside" and shared a delicious chicken salad sandwhich with pinapple and pecans. Yummo! Also we decided to try Hush Puppies...Ok that is deep fried dough with minced onions grated into the dough.. Hello? What's not to love about that... They were tasty, but I could only eat 2 of them!
Tomorrow we will try to get a reservation for "The Lady & Sons", Paula Deen's place... You have to get in line at 9am to get a reservation so we will see if we make it!
We are going to take a tour of Savannah tomorrow to start our day so that should be fun...
I'll post some Savannah pics tomorrow...
See ya on the Road,
Ter :)
'From the driver's seat'.....man, this driver is tiiiired. We're spending a couple days in Savannah, GA, before starting the trek west. We visited the Hunley today, the first 'successful' submarine, sinking a ship but sinking itself and taking everyone in it in the process. The next successful submarine attack wasn't until World War I, 50 years later. The restoration crew has been very respectful of the remains that were found in the sub and they were all buried with military honors, more than 100 years after they died. Because the sub was quickly covered in silt, it, and it's crew, were well preserved to the point that forensic detectives were able to reconstruct the faces of all of the crew....kinda creepy but very cool. You can follow the ongoing progress on line at http://www.hunley.org/
The car is just as tired as it's builder. It's running a little hot so I'm going to experiment with some ducting to see if that helps. I have some minor maintenance to do over the next couple days although it's still very happy running at 70-75 all day long, fortunately with the AC on.
We drove downtown for dinner along River Street, very reminiscent of Fisherman's Wharf in SF. We shared a delicious chicken salad sandwich and did a little window shopping, but the trinkets were also of the same 'high' quality as those in SF.
Good to put my feet up for a couple days.....
Wow that is so Awesome you got to sit in the Hunly
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DeleteThat was a movie prop, but very accurate in material and size. The actual sub is in a pool of water to keep it from deteriorating any more than it already has. The iron has so much salt in it that it can't be exposed to air. They drain the pool to work on it and even after it is fully deconcreted it will likely always be displayed in water.
I just LOVE that purple color of your woodie wagon -- really photographs well. :)
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