Sunday, November 4, 2007

Savannah

We left the KOA RV park near Fayetteville North Carolina on Friday morning. Got off to a good start & were back on I-95 southbound by 0800. We targeted an RV park near Savannah Georgia for our destination. We arrived there at about 3 in the afternoon & were all set up & out "exploring" the place by 4:30. We ended up at a nice little seafood restaurant for dinner. I had catfish fillets & they were delicious!
The next morning we headed into Savannah & signed on for a city trolley tour. It was great. You could get on & off the trolley at your leisure & the whole route took about 2 hours to complete. It was narrated by the driver so you always knew what you were looking at out the open side windows of the trolley. Savannah has a lot of American civil war history & was an important cotton port for the early Euoropeans. We saw a lot of small memorial parks & famous buildings from the civil war era. Apparently a lot of movies are made there, one of them being Forest Gump. We saw several of the settings that were used in the movie, one of the most memorable was the opening scene where Forest (Tom Hanks) is sitting on the park bench & begins to tell his life story . The bench has been put in a museum but the park & the spot where it was is still there.
This morning we got back on the road & drove to Wildwood Florida. We are now in an RV park here & plan to have some work done on our front windshield at the Monaco service facility here in Wildwood. We have an appointment for Nov 12 but are hoping to get in sooner. The seal around the windshield is shifting & if it rains we can't be sure that it won't leak so we're going to have it fixed here before we move on.

The weather has improved remarkably as we've moved down the east coast with the temps now well into the 70's F. We haven't seen rain for a week or more now.This has not been good for the locals as the whole area is drought stricken & they are praying for rain.
We have been watching with interest, the weather reports for the eastern part of Canada & the havoc that Noel created as it roared through. We were in those exact areas less that 2 weeks ago.
Anyway I'll add some more notes & perhaps some pictures in the days to come once we know how long we can expect to be here.

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