Savannah. Oh Savannah!

We drove on to

only to find that it's closed on Sunday and Monday (this was Monday).  In spite of the Mosquito Meter, we decided to do a quick walk on the raised walkway through the wetlands.  This whole thing is a flood plain that, while not flooded at that time, floods fairly regularly.  People have tried to farm and log this land for two centuries.

Gotta laugh at the way Mother Nature thwarts the desires of us mere mortals, either with foods or bugs or hurricanes or ...

We pressed on, thinking we'd walk in Charleston.  However, the volkswalk that was on our way was at a plantation just a little west of Charleston.

one of many water features

a bridge over a water feature

Spanish Moss - neither Spanish nor moss, but a member of the pineapple family.

From there we decided to head to Savannah, since we had conquered South Carolina and still needed Georgia.

Savannah was absolutely delightful.  Hot and humid as everything else, but trees, parks and fountains everywhere.

Ray's photos of the riverfront walk will be added as soon as we can get them up from the car.  It's 10:00 pm and I'm not running down to the car to get them!

From Savannah, we continued on to Jacksonville, Florida to meet up with Gene and Susan, friends who moved there from Washington.  It was really great seeing them and I'm really sorry I never thought to take any pictures of them or their beautiful home.   We stayed in Jacksonville that night, then moved on to St. Augustine.

St. Augustine is a beautiful ancient (by American standards) seaside city.  Lots of old stuff, Spanish moss, old ships in the harbor.  We took the city tour because, as we've learned, it offers free parking and a terrific overview of the best things to see.  

Hilton has very distinctive architecture here

We didn't take a lot of pictures here.  It's so exactly what you expect.  I did have a fabulous seafood cobb salad at the A1A Alehouse as well as a gingery collins that was amazing, but not really worth a photo.  We traveled A1A down the coast, which offers surprisingly few sightings of the ocean due to private homes along the way, and have ended this day in Daytona.  I found (on TripAdvisor, I think) a great little tapas restuarant for dinner.  Gotta love the TripAdvisor!  More tomorrow.  And still one more state to walk in...