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What a beautiful city! The streets of Savannah are canopied with live oak trees draped with Spanish moss, there's a lush city square park every few blocks, and the riverwalk area is a delight, with all kinds of shops and restaurants tucked into historic brick buildings right along the harbor. There are all these Victorian "painted lady" homes, as well as neighborhoods that feel almost like the French Quarter of New Orleans, with intricate wrought iron balconies. The College of Art and Design seems to have a campus building everywhere you look, and the whole city feels like a designer's sensibility is behind it, from the architecture to the decorating to the landscaping. We had a great time today roaming the shops on River Street and Bay Street, and we're going back to take a historic trolley tour and a ghost tour, too.
Savannah is now on our short list of cities we'd visit again at the drop of a hat. I'll bet it's magnificent in the springtime!
When we left Myrtle Beach, we fully intended to get to Savannah, GA. But just before we left, we got our mail. In our Escapees magazine, I read an article on the Holiday Festival of Lights at James Island County Park in Charleston. I started telling Cory about it as we were pulling out, and before we reached Georgetown, we decided, "Why not?" So we stopped in Charleston!
We had to drycamp the first night in the overflow area of the county park. The HFOL is a big deal and the campground fills up every weekend through the holiday season. But we were able to get into a full hookup site the next day, and we planned to stay here through Thanksgiving. As it turns out, we've both been sick all week--caught a nasty bronchitis--so we extended our stay another couple of nights. We managed a nice Thanksgiving Day dinner, turkey and all the trimmings, here at home, and got out to see the big sand sculpture across the way at the Winter Wonderland. 
