Savannah

Well, we are now having adventures in our sleep. Wednesday morning I woke up to hear Felicia tell the story of a big fracas in the room next door in the middle of the night. I did not wake up; neither did Brad. (And I wonder Felicia heard anything considering how loud she said my snoring was!)

According to Felicia, a couple were fighting. There was some throwing of stuff, apparently. The woman said, "I can't believe you broke my......." (Here Felicia lets us down since she did not hear what was "broken.") The man says something along the lines of "$1,000 wasted." And then there was inconsolable sobbing for the next 45 minutes.

When we went to our promised "deluxe" continental breakfast in the morning (it wasn't), we told the front desk about the noise and they said there had been a number of complaints and the family was being asked to leave. That's when we found out that there were two kids in the room. What a shame! As we left our room, the man from the fight came out of his door, got on the phone and started talking about how he was being disrespected by the hotel. He was kind of scruffy, with a beer gut, a baseball hat and a bad attitude. We certainly can't say that we were sorry to leave the Comfort Inn in St. Augustine Beach.

So, we braced ourselves for a boring day of driving, but then we decided to have lunch in Savannah. What a beautiful place. We walked along River Street,


and had our picture taken in front of the paddle boat that gives tours of the area.


While we were there, a huge freighter came by and a tug boat sidled up to it to guide it into port. The boat was registered to Amsterdam, which we kind of figured out before we saw the registration because it had a name that looked somewhat like "Scratchen Croch", which Ada and Felicia insisted was the name of a street in Amsterdam near where they stayed many years ago.

Then we drove around the city a bit and saw some really beautiful homes. Savannah is yet another town we have visited on this trip where we could live very well, thank you.


And you might think that was the end of this blog. But no. After driving another 7 hours and getting to our hotel about 9:45, we discovered that Felicia had been named "guest of the day," which involves a free bottle of water, bag of pretzels and a really good parking space.
It's Thursday morning and we're up about 8AM. We're going to get another deluxe breakfast, check out the pool for an hour or so and get back on the road.