Savannah

Hi everyone!
It has been a week since my last post. Why? Reasons. Reasons that include several Tilly breakdowns, a few days of sunup-to-sundown driving, and a hellacious stomach flu that left me completely incapacitated for days.  I will totally write about the past week's adventures in the near future, but for now, I want to tell you about our current city: beautiful Savannah, Georgia!
Actually, before I go into the Southern fairy dreamland that is Savannah, has anyone tried boiled peanuts?  They sound awful, but they're actually pretty good.

You know they're going to be good when you buy them from some guy on the side of the road selling them out of a cardboard shack.

Savannah is a decently-sized city just over the South Carolina-Georgia border.  It's the oldest city in the state of Georgia.  It is absolutely gorgeous here.  Josh and I arrived here mid-afternoon after leaving Edisto Beach, SC, this morning.  We parked Tilly at the Savannah Welcome Center and set off on the Love Bug.  We drove through the northern part of the city and by Forsyth Park.  We stopped at a small coffee shop so Josh could get some work done.

While he was working, I took a walk around the Victorian Historic District and saw some beautiful houses.

They are all so colorful and ornate!  When I lived in Boston I worked at a building product company for two years (hello to any Harvey BP people who are reading!), so I know a fair amount about construction and building.  The building style here is SO DIFFERENT from that in the greater Boston area.  No vinyl siding!  No Fiberglass doors!  So many front porches!  Everything is colorful and beautifully decorated, and I just love it.  Also, the vegetation is surprisingly tropical. We started seeing palm trees once we got into South Carolina, so logically it makes sense that the plants would get more lush the further south we get, but I was still shocked to see such amazing greenery here.

We ate dinner at a bar/restaurant called The Distillery, which has an impressive selection of craft beers and some kickass tomato soup.

Josh got a beer sampler platter that came with a scorecard to rank each beer.

His refined palate detects notes of "cloudy pee", "Guinness-y", and "beer"

We also peeked into the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum courtyard, but it was sadly closed.

We might try to get in tomorrow morning if we have time, though.