A leftover thought from yesterday. Before this trip, I had visited the sites of the beginning of the American Revolution (Lexington and Concord) and the end of the Civil War (Appomattox Court House, Virginia). In the last few days, I have seen the locations of the end of the Revolution (Yorktown, Virginia) and the beginning of the Civil War (Fort Sumter, off Charlestown).
This morning, Rachel and I had a very informative bus tour of Savannah, with its beautiful old buildings and its 22 squares (or parks), all named after important figures in the city’s history and all part of the original city plan laid out by James Ogelthorpe, the leader of the Geogia colony started in 1723. We learned that the two purposes of the colony were to make money from rice and cotton and to serve as a buffer between the other English colonies and the Spaniards who occupied Florida. Also, there was no slavery for a decade or so – and then economic factors took over.
At the Savannah History Museum, a man and a woman described Savannah during the Revolutionary War, and the man fired a musket when we were outside the building on the site of reportedly the bloodiest battle of the entire war.
We had wonderful seafood for lunch and dinner down by the river, watching both an old paddle wheel boat and a huge container ship pass by.
Restaurants along the Savannah River 
Savannah City Hall 
Bonaventure Cemetery 
Three cool dogs 
A typical street of row houses 
A square full of trees and flowers 
A house and wrought iron fence 
Chippewa Square, where Forest Gump sat on the bench
Two more Georgia songs – The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence and Rambling Man by the Allman Brothers.
Mark's cross-country trip 