Decisions, decisions.....

As you can see, we have hit Florida!  Wow!  Now, it is a LONG state, so we have a way to go, but we are in the destination state!  And it is warm and lovely, and the birds I always hear when we are in Florida are chirping.

Had a hard time deciding what to do today.  Since we have been to Savannah before, we decided to go on to St . Augustine.  We have to be at our house a day earlier than planned, because they have decided to seal the streets just as we were due in!  So we would not be able to drive to the house.  So we will get in a day earlier than planned, unload, pick up the car, and go to Ft. Lauderdale, where we have to return the RV , and camp there for the night.  That should be fun, actually.  Maybe get a place near the water.  And have a nice dinner in the city our last night out.

Anyway, Savannah is lovely, with gracious old homes, and a central square.  The house famous for "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is on the square.  One of my all time favorite books, by the way, and a true story.......truth is stranger than fiction, as they say.  I highly recommend it, if you have not read it.

Georgia, as you know, is famous for its peaches and pecans.  And once in Atlanta I ate at the famous Pitty Pat's Porch....talk about great biscuits!  And you can see them being made!  Pecan pie to die for!  And now, of course, Miss Paula Deene!  Everything that woman makes is a heart attack on a plate, I swear!  Y'all!

So we traveled from the spectacular mountains in North Carolina.  Did I mention that in addition to the Smokey mtns. we drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Not far, but enough to visit the Craft Museum.  Crafts are a big way of life in the Carolinas.  Pottery and textiles in particular.  Saw some really creative brooms, too!  yes, brooms!!  and baskets.  Would be neat to go back and drive the several hundred mile distance of the parkway.  It is much like the  Hutchinson parkway in NY , if you have been on that.  But it was commissioned  by Roosevelt to be a scenic route, rather than one built for speed.  So one needs to be on a leisurely pace as it winds its way through the mountains.

South Carolina entered the "low country."  And by the time we hit Georgia to stay for the night, the air mattress was practically flat!!  Charleston is the neatest city in South Carolina, and again, we had already been there, and to Fort Sumpter.  Visited with friends Jim and Joan many years ago.  Really neat city, big antebellum homes, and the gracious way of living once again.  Had also visited an old plantation.  So we moved on through there as well.

Hit Georgia, and REALLY low country.  I have been driving this morning, or I could have shown you photos of some large swampy areas.  Stopped at the Florida welcome center, where the photo was taken, and now we are headed to St. Augustine, where we will take the trolley tour and hop off at a few interesting sights.