Wow what a day! The ride to Savannah on route 16 was fast. You can see by the intervals on the GPS plottings. I got there and took a city tour which is usually the fastest way to get the highlights and the lay of the land. Savannah has a very long history with much of it in the 18th century. There is a Classic as well as French architectural quality to the place. That part is really cool, but it has a sort of New Orleans feel to it, which I don’t like as much.
The ride to Charleston SC via Hilton Head was OK . Hilton Head is a beautiful resort area, very up scale, but it has a sort of Disney feel to it also …nothing is completely as it seems, looking good is everything, lots of very over the top entrances but the properties may not be all that when you look closely. I’m sure it is a wonderful place to go but I had a weird feeling about it.
The brackish marshes of the “low country” on the way to Charleston were very interesting there is so much of it, there is a whole culture and cuisine that developed around it. Lots of seafood, shrimp, clams, oysters etc. and they grow great vegetables on the islands as well. Charleston is quite historic and a bit more relevant than Savannah in my view.
I was able to experience some really great food here in Charleston and the rest is history.
Tomorrow is the outer banks and Kitty Hawk.
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