January 29, 2012: Travel to Savannah
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We checked out of the condo and left Miramar at about 7:45 am this morning. We grabbed a Starbucks and a few morning snacks for the road and headed out. We routed through Tallahassee and then left the Interstate system for a back roads ride across Georgia.
We drove through Thomasville, Quitman, Valdosta and Homerville in search of a place to stop for lunch. Unfortunately everyplace we found was a "buffet" mostly filled with fried chicken and other abundantly served southern food. We were looking for a light lunch. We finally found it at that world famous "local" restaurant in Homerville.....Dairy Queen. We split our light lunches and then hit the road again. We drove through Waycross and then on to Jessup where we stopped at another Dairy Queen for a Blizzard (small of course).
We arrived at Savannah at about 5 pm. We found our hotel, The Hyatt Regency on the Riverfront and checked in. We did well in landing this location. We bagged it on Priceline.com for $80 per night; a great value. We overlook the popular River Street and the river itself of course. It is a 4 star hotel facility and the rooms are very nice.
After checking in, we went for a walk along River Street. There was a recommended Restaurant named Tubby's that was on the second level with the patio overlooking the area and as a bonus they had live entertainment. Good country music with "It ain't right that lefty's gone" being sung as we arrived. Other equally emotional songs followed during our dinner. Ken and Kay had the "Kicken Chicken", a Cajun fixin meal and Ken and JA had the Fish Fingers.
We booked the all day ticket on the Hop on, Hop off Trolley tour for tomorrow which we will use to get familiar with the market and then set off to explore on our own.
The Navigator is packed to the gils with all of our luggage and some left over supplies from the condo. However, we did not have to strap anything or anyone on top of the car and that is a good thing.
The drive across Georgia was a nice experience but it does demonstrate the decay of small town America with many vacant and abandoned buildings in most of the small towns.