Day 7 - Savannah

Monday, June 12, 2023
Posted from: Yemassee Holiday KOA, Yemassee, SC
Miles driven: 98
Total trip miles: 1634

Today we are headed to Savannah. This town has been on my to do list for awhile. Pictures are so lovely and the town has a lot of Girl Scout history as it is where Girl Scouting began in the United States. 

We started out our day on the river front at a little cafe for breakfast. At this point we have figured out that food portions are insane and we can’t take leftovers, so we ordered three meals and had plenty to go around. We aren’t cheap, but we aren’t wasteful either. 

This place charged $7 if you split a meal (we are talking cafe food here, folks), so we just said two of us already ate. Caleb was happy to eat out of the little sausage skillet from Graces meal. Each biscuit was big enough to feed a family of four and we ended up with two of them. So. Much. Food. 

We left the cafe and walked next door to the Black Rifle coffee shop to get drinks to take on the tour bus. 



Lots of sketchy little alleys and stairways near the river front. 

We got tickets for a hop on hop off tour bus. We were very glad we did. Savannah is a very walkable city, but it was a warm day and we had several things we wanted to see, so this allowed us to ride the full circuit the first time to see all of the stops and hear the history and recommendations. Then we could hop on and off to circle back on certain places. 

Most of the streets has the live oak canopy that Charleston lost in the hurricane. 



We saw a lot of shades of pale blue. This blue is known as haint blue. 

Haint blue is a collection of pale shades of blue-green that are traditionally used to paint porch ceilings and shutters in the southern United States. The tradition originated with the Gullah in Georgia and South Carolina. 

More haint blue on the left. 


More haint blue behind the quote on the wall. 

We hopped off at the house where Juliette Gordon Low was born. She was the founder of Girl Scouts in America over 100 years ago in 1912. As Girl Scouts, Grace and I wanted to stop and see where and how it all began. The guys were good sports about it. 


This cute little pin was made for her bridesmaids when she married. She came from a well off family. 


This window was beautiful! The tour guide said that it changed in vibrancy depending on how the sun was hitting the window. These windows were traditionally amber yellow and some were this rose color.  




Juliette had many talents. She was a painter, sculptor, and even worked with iron. She made this gate. 

This church is a wonder. This is the Cathedral Basilica of St John the Baptist.


There are no words…






After visiting the church, we needed to find lunch. It seemed appropriate to go to the Treylor Park. Home is where you park it!

And while we are here, can we take a moment to appreciate this outfit? It was…so much. Two thumbs up, buddy!

The lovely fountain in Forsyth Park. Much to Caleb’s dismay, Gould not play in this fountain. Though they do change to color of the water green for their week long St Patrick’s celebrations. These people are very serious about that holiday!

I should mention that much of todays plans were inspired by a little help from our friend Hannah who attends college at SCAD - Savannah College of Art and Design. She suggested we go to the SCAD Museum of Art and we are glad we did. It isn’t a large museum, but had a nice variety of art on display. 

This was my favorite. I now can’t recall how long this table is, but Caleb is standing at the very end. And the table cloth is one continuous piece of cloth. The blown glass lights were beautiful. 



This installment was also great if you have ever made up stories about what is going on with a scene. These artists found pictures and made up stories about the extras in the pictures…the background people. It is all made up, but very fun to read what they came up with. 

This is a live piece of art we call “Guilt”. They guys figured out they could slide the walls to access the art displayed on the outside of the building. 

This was an eclectic lounge area. 


The guys made use of it.

Random fact: There are four McDonalds “walk thrus” in existence. One of them is in Savannah at the window Grace is walking by. 



They guys found a patio and ordered some drinks while Grace and I went shopping. She found some very cute and reasonably priced things!

We are back to the riverfront. It has sprinkled a few times in the last 20 minutes and Mom was the only one who brought an umbrella. 

Lots of original building s along the riverfront.

A large barge went past while we were eating dinner.

Hannah suggested we try a restaurant called Savannah Tequila Company. It did not disappoint! And our server was exactly who we needed after a very long day of sightseeing. She was motherly and sweet and just took the best care of us. 



After dinner we walked back to the truck with a few stops along the way. 

Including a stop at a lovely hotel that they ushered us into when the sky’s suddenly opened up and the rain started coming at us sideways. Yikes! 

It didn’t last long, but it was intense for a few minutes. 

But alas! Our day was not yet complete! 

We decided to drive out to Tybee Island to see the lighthouse. The drive out to the island was very neat as the lighting became very intense as the sun went down. This was the storm moving out into the ocean. 

This lighthouse was so cool. Maybe even better at night, though it wasn’t open for visitors. 



The kids tried to catch a picture of the lightening. This is Grace’s. 



We got stopped at the train tracks for 10 minutes or so. 


This was Cameron’s lightening picture. 


We made it back to the camper and all fell right into bed. That was a full day!