Touring Savannah and Going to Charleston Air Force Base

April 9th - Party Cloudy 70 degrees

After another night of rain, it started to clear up Lou and I decided we would take a chance and drive down town Savannah and take a tour of the city.  We were in luck, we got tickets on the Gray Line which gave us a continuous 90 minute tour of the city.

We started at the Savannah Museum of History which was a wonder and across the street was the Railroad Museum, which we didn’t get a chance to see, but will do the next time we are there.

It took us past some beautiful homes in the historical part of the city, many of which we had seen when we were walking with Casey and Ali on Sunday; however, it was nice to hear the narration that went along with the tour, but he gave us so much information, I can’t remember all of it.  The Telfair home was interesting and beautiful.  It also had a museum that went along with it.

Many movies have been made in Savannah.  Six Pence Inn -
Savannah is the  birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, which is the founder of the Girl Scouts.

I was doing great taking pictures, when all of a sudden my battery went dead, so that was the end of my picture taking.

That evening  we met Casey at The Pirates House, which is located at the end of Casey’s block.  It was opened in 1753 as an Inn for seafarers and fast became a meeting point for bloodthirsty pirates and sailors from the Seven Seas.  Stories still persist of a tunnel extending from the old rum cellar beneath the Captain’s Room that led to the river through which men were carried unconscious, to ships waiting in the harbor.  Indeed many a sailor drinking in carefree abandon awoke to find himself at sea on a strange ship bound for a port half a world away.

The food was fantastic and we were careful not to drink anything in our iced tea!!

The next morning we left for Charleston Air Force Base arriving there about three hours later.  This is the only base that we come into that our RV must be x-rayed prior to passage into the gate.   Once again we were able to get a site and this is a new Fam-Camp as of three years ago and we looked forward to being here and have decided that we will not return to PA as soon as we thought, have heard that the ground is still frozen at home.

We leave here on Saturday and go to Onslow Beach on the Atlantic.  Great beach to find sand dollars.  We always liked to take Estee there, as they had a doggie beach and you can hang your laundry outside!!