BACK TO GEORGIA - MARCH 7

Ted was so disappointed at skipping Charleston and Savannah, after all the planning we had put ito this part of our trip, that he was willig to drive back up Florida and across Georgia to spend 4 days in Savannah. The temperatures were still pretty glacial for this part of the world, 45 overnight, and only 58 as high for the first day. But spring-like weather is now here, helped by DST starting. So it's 78 here at 6pm this evening in the sun.

  Savannah is a beautiful historic city, developed on a master plan laying out wide avanues and green squares of live oak trees hanging with Spanish moss. 22 of the original 24 squares remain, surrounded often by lovely old historic homes. Sadly the annual home tour begins March 27, the day we return to Calgary, so no chance of enjoying that. However, a few houses are open for tours and we went around a couple of them. But they are not the antebellum homes we remembered from previous visits to Charleston and also Natches on the Mississippi.