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Savannah

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We really fell in love with Savannah! It’s a beautiful, safe, walkable town. The downtown area has an ‘old city’ feeling that kept a lot of the historic nature with cobblestone streets, historic buildings, brick sidewalks, iron work, and oddly … a pile of snow (even though it was in the 50’s that day?!?!?).

One day we drove over to Tybee Island. This is a cute little touristy area but it was pretty quiet when we were there in November. We did get to play a little pinball after lunch at Rock House!!

We spent a lot of time on River Street checking out the restaurants, bars, and shops. Some of our favorites were Boar’s Head Grill and Tavern and the Wine Bar on the River. Many of the bars seem to have a prohibition era theme, like The Bootlegger.

We also took a day trip to Hilton Head Island and saw a great musician while eating lunch at Big Bamboo. Then we visited the Hilton Head Distillery, but sadly weren’t crazy about their rums.

In honor of Jimmy Carter’s passing, we had a drink at Pinky Masters where, legend has it, he stood on the bar to announce his candidacy for President!!

Another must see is the Wormsloe Historic Site with it’s “Mile of Oaks,” an approximately mile and a half long driveway lined with hundreds of majestic Live Oak Trees. They’ve stopped allowing motor vehicle access because, sadly, it was harming the health of the trees. The first image below we took 9 years ago in the Spring. The next two are in the Winter, but does illustrate the decline of the Spanish Moss present today.

Of course, no visit to Savannah is complete without visiting Forsythe Park.

Christmas in Savannah

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Even though it was too cold for us, we loved spending Christmas time in Savannah. They started the season early with a boat parade which, being from Baltimore, we felt obligated to attend. It was okay but they got nothin’ on B’more!!

The Savannah City Market was done up beautifully with Christmas decorations. One of our favorite evenings was spent at The Treehouse listening to Kellen Powers and watching the festivities below.

One evening we drove to Tybee Island to the Tybee Post Theater to see The 1940’s Holiday Radio Show play. It was really cute and a lot of fun, and we learned a lot about old time radio!!

For Christmas Eve we treated ourselves to a ‘fancy’ dinner at Chive Sea Bar & Lounge. The food was excellent, the service was great and the atmosphere was fabulous.

Shakespeare Ghost Town

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Another fun stay at a Harvest Host, this one was very different from any of the others we’ve stayed at!

Shakespeare Ghost Town is an abandoned mining town in Lordsburg, NM. The town and buildings were purchased by the Hill family in 1935 and it has been passed down in the family since. The family maintains the buildings as well as they can while still keeping the original look and feel of the early mining days.

We took a tour with Dave, one of the owners. His knowledge of the town is amazing and you can tell how much he cherishes it by the care he has taken of it and how he shares it with others.

It was interesting to see how historic towns have evolved over the years. Our visit to Bisbee showed us an old mining town that has become a hippy-tourist area where the old buildings have been turned into restaurants and shops. Tombstone is a tourist attraction where they try to recreate the feel of the original town by reconstructing some of the bars and scenes. Shakespeare Ghost Town has a more authentic feel to it and may be a better way to understand what it was actually like to live in that time.

Mesa, Arizona

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It’s hard to believe that we have been full time RVers for 5 years already! We have had so much fun exploring the Western part of the country, but one thing we’ve realized is that there really aren’t many places to spend the winter if you want to stay in warm weather.

So, we’ve spent the last four winters in Mesa, Arizona, which is a great Winter base for exploring the West Coast. Ya gotta be somewhere in the Winter and you can’t argue with the Winter weather in the Phoenix area!

There are so many great things to do in the area, and we know we didn’t see them all, but we were fortunate enough to get to see many of them like … Pima Air and Space Museum, Titan Missile Museum,
Tortilla Flat, Scottsdale, MIM, Museum of Illusions, TranSiberian Orchestra, Tucson Book Fair, International Guitar Night, Whose Live Anyway!, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar, Concerts and Dances, Starz American Bar for watching the Ravens! (with breakfast beer), Vito’s Cellar Comedy Club nights. Plus, we found a tequila we like that is only available locally.

We also had the opportunity to get to know and work with a great group of workampers and a fantastic boss over the years.

When we first started this ‘road trip’ we thought we’d never go back to the same place twice, we ended up coming back for 4 Winters. But now we feel like it’s time to move on. So for now we bid this area adieu and move on … back to where we started – the East Coast! After 5 years we’d like to spend some time closer to family and visit some beaches! Although the West Coast is beautiful, the beaches don’t compare to the East Coast beaches.

Growing up in Maryland our weekend/vacation resort was always Ocean City, MD – so we are psych’d to be returning there this summer … more to come!