I drove the 120 miles or so back to the coast to the lovely city of Savannah.
Not too much to say about it – a lot of walking, many picturesque squares, I lucked into free day at the art museum, had a bad bar-finding experience, a good sunset experience, and finished it off with a not-great Walmart experience.
The Civil War didn’t feel like quite the open wound here that it was in South Carolina – the signs and the tour guide talk were as much about the Revolutionary War and colonial days as they were about what the damn Yankees took from us.
As a lover of the college town vibe, Savannah benefits from the presence of SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design?), which means there’s tons of hipster kids riding their bicycles around, being waiters, etc.
The people were very nice at the Walmart, but its parking lot, like the previous in Columbia was sadly lacking in beauty or privacy.
The local Perkins (a southern food chain) was alleged by my app to have wifi, but I went in the morning and it was a lie. They also had poor service and loud republican diners and one asshole waitress, but it was a cheap 2-2-2 breakfast special, so we did our business and parted ways.
My find wifi app tells many lies, I am discovering. I am leaving the interstate at Brunswick GA, so the app tells me that there is a place with an interesting name six miles of the road. I get there and it is an extremely seedy looking car stereo store in the middle of b-f nowhere. So I go for predictable rather than interesting and return to the Starbucks next to the interchange and spent an entirely adequate half-hour there.
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