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| Forsyth Fountain in Forsyth Park |
We cruised across Georgia on State road 30, driving through some very gorgeous horse country, plantation homes and big ranch spreads. Fun were the old towns hardly beating a pulse while others had a rock solid feel of being on the map for sometime. Tacos for lunch sounded right and good they were. Carnitas please, soft corn tortillas, onion and cilantro with killer salsa verde. El Rinconcito, can't remember the town but remember the tacos.
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| River front street |
We pulled in just outside
Savannah to one of the only RV tent places close by,
Red Gate Farms, 5.5mi from the heart of old town
Savannah. A 9am trolley picked us up the next morning for our first excursion; a day trip into the 22 squares or Wards of
Savannah. This was America's first city to have real urban planning with more open space-beautiful, luscious parks.
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| One of many river tour boats Savannah river |
Talk about a rich history
Savannah was bathed in white Gold, cotton from the mid 1700's to present day. Our tour was a hop-on-hop- off tram style, which was perfect. Walking around the historic streets was an architectural overload for the senses. General James Edward Oglethorpe, Savannah's founding father (1733) and city planner had a vision of a utopian colony that culminated into the city of Savannah, Georgia.
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| Ballest stone lined streets |
Oglethorpe, initially, instilled four prohibitions which lasted 91 days for his ideal colony. They were "No Liquor", as hard liquor made folks wander from their duties, "No Slaves" which was progressive for its time and quickly ended by plantation owners; "No Lawyers", why?, he just did not like them and "No Catholics", as sympathy with the Spanish religion was politically not acceptable. So they shipped them to
Miami! (Just kidding!). All of Oglethorpe's four prohibitions are here in droves today sans the slavery.
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| Cool doors |
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| Nice entrance |
With so much to see and explore it was hard to take pictures of everything so I decided to take pics of some of the doors in this historic town. One note: the city is very beautiful, however, with so many tours, trams and sightseeing companies, I really could not live here with the constant hum of traffic and sightseers. And, with plans on dredging the river an additional 5 feet from the 47 feet previously dredged to accommodate (you guessed it) CRUISE SHIPS!! is next on the horizon. Tourism is BIG business and keeps this city alive!
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| Jones Street Savannah |
We spent a day hanging out on the farm
Red Gate Farm doing laundry, reading and fishing. Here Trixie caught her
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| Red Gate Farms Fishin Hole |
first small-mouth Bass! On her 4th cast she lands a whopper with all the hoot-in and hollering, it sure sounded like a whopper. Catch and release, back in the water it goes. Then I had some luck and landed a small mouth Bass,too. Although both fish were about the same size, Trixie's was a little bigger as she tells the story!!
The next day we packed up the bikes and headed to
Tybee Island a
pristine barrier isle, our last visit to the Atlantic Ocean as we make
our way west, inland.
Tybee Island was a nice sleepy town this time of year and
after a quiet bike ride we took to the beach and laid out for a well
earned nap.
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| Old stones in Colonial Park Cemetery |
We finished our lazy afternoon over at the beach side watering hole. Before heading back to
Red Gate Farm campsite
a tasty burger and beer was in order. Did I mention that fricken
Rooster every morning, with a cock-a-doddle-do? Our camping site was
about 100ft away from his chicken coupe..... Bastard!!
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| Pirates house |
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| Trixie window shopping |
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| Catching some solar rays at the Farm |
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| Tybee Beach Atlantic Ocean |
Loaded up heading north west to
George L Smith State Park,
Georgia back roads lookin good!
See Y'all on the road.
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