Georgia Rambler

Update on the truck fire we passed in the last post: The truck was full of 39,000 pounds of shredded cheese. The only thing missing was the world's biggest tortilla chip.  http://www.pnj.com/article/20100805/NEWS01/100805022/Burned-cheese-blocks-traffic-on-I-10-after-crash

Yesterday we spent the day touring the history and food of Savannah. Though both of us were feeling a bit sedate from the previous night's epic driving and not-so-epic sleeping, our mood seemed appropriate for the city, which is covered in spanish-moss, humidity, and leisurely, kind people. 

Our first stop in Savannah was the Green-Meldrim Mansion, which is primarily famous for being Sherman's headquarters following his famous march to the sea. This is the place where he wrote a letter giving Lincoln the city of Savannah, 150 artillery, and 25,000 bales of cotton for Christmas. 

It is currently owned by a church next door, whose members give tours of the place. On the tour, two very sweet old men very slowly tell you very mundane details about very old furniture. Nonetheless, the tour was really interesting, especially after my recent spate of Civil War nerdiness.  

Next up, Katy took us to the Womsloe plantation, which has a nice little museum, a tomb, and a mile-and-a-half road lined with 400 spanish moss-draped oak trees. The rumor is that this is the road that Forrest Gump runs down when he breaks free of his braces. Sadly, this rumor was quashed by the girl at Wormsloe's welcome center, who was working her first day, and was able to provide little else in terms of interesting information. 

Chadé's excitement for spanish-moss covered oak trees led to many, many more pictures, though I'll only share this last one, of the oldest tree in Savannah.

For dinner we ate at the Moon River brewery, where we drank entirely too much beer, only to be taken  immediately to Wet Willies, which serves slushees spiked with 190 proof grain alcohol.

Chadé wants them all!

Feeling rejuvenated from drink and food (and painkillers in Chadé's case,) we ended our night in Savannah with a sweet fireworks display along the waterfront.

The Competition:
A point to Katy for graciously showing us around Savannah for the day and for humoring us when
we became too exhausted to continue.

Another point to Katy's dog Bundy, whose almost rabid enthusiasm injected some much-needed energy into the day.

Walking back from the Wormsloe plantation, Katy found a tiny anole lizard in our path. I commanded the lizard to climb up on Chadé, who was standing stock-still a few feet away. The lizard obeyed, and climbed half-way up her leg before discovering that she was not, in fact, an oak tree. I earn a point for lizard-mastery, and Chadé earns a point or tree-impersonation.

Unforunately, I also need to deduct a point from myself for poor Hot Sauce management after accidently shaking the bottle with the lid lightly screwed on, spraying hot sauce everywhere, followed by mis-judging the lid of the hot-sauce and pouring about half the bottle on my dinner.

Current Score: Chadé 6, Adam 5

Next stop: Charleston, SC and then on to Kentucky!

- Adam