A very early start to head off to Savannah Georgia, to give us almost two full touring days there.

We arrived with the temperature in the high '80s. What is summer like here? — A lot more humidity.

Like Charleston, the historic preservation movement has taken Savannah be storm. Many of the homes and buildings were restored by the Savannah College of Art and Design or SCAD for short. With 60 or 70 students in the 70s, it now has a student body of thousands! One of the majors in historic preservation, so it provides funds and labor for much of the restoration work around town.

Savannah, another city with lots of history, has hop on, hop off Jitney tours. We sort of got roped into the biggest one with two house tours and a seafaring museum thrown in. It actually worked out well. The drivers bantered away with Savannah history and one was over-the-top humorous.

The first house on the tour was the Juliet Gordon Low house—the founder of the Girl Scouts. It was a well preserved, early 20th century mansion, with many memento's of her rather colorful life. Second was a merchant's home, much like in Charleston, and third was the Seafarer's Museum which was very well done and contained fantastic models of ships off all eras, scrimshaw and figureheads as well. It had an impressive model of the late, great, Titanic.

The Planter's Inn was spectacular, particular considering our room had been upgraded to a small queen suite, beautifully decorated.

Next door was The Olde Pink House, one of the best restaurants in Savannah. Also in a beautifully restored mansion, we were treated to first class service and definitely the best dinner on the trip. Very busy, we could only get a 5 P.M. reservation.

Afterwards we walked around Savannah, taking in its famous squares and stopping by The Lady & Sons, Paula Deen’s restaurant and gift shop. Paula presence was definitely felt around Savannah as she has done much to give it national attention. Another big Savannah name was songwriter Johnny Mercer. Savannah is a beautiful city to walk around at night after the heat of the day.