Day 18-Sweet Savannah

Tuesday, April 6, 2021.
Weather: Temp: 85/52, Humidity: 76/20%, Top Wind: S10 mph, Precip: None, Miles Traveled: none

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Our only plan for today was to take an Uber ride into Savannah, and stroll around enjoying whatever we came across. Here is a map of where we are. We came up the Intracoastal Waterway, and will continue on it tomorrow. It does not go along the Savannah River, and we know from visiting the riverfront there, we would not want to dock Island Girl along the wharf in Savannah. There is a lot of commercial traffic on the river, and it is a rough water kind of location to be docked! It’s made for ships and ferries and big boats.

We had to wait awhile to get an Uber…. we kept getting the message that no cars were available. Finally just after noon, a fare showed up with an UberX for around $11. We grabbed it, and our driver picked us up at the entrance to the marina. We were dropped off at the Riverfront, which is one of our favorite places to wander. I am absolutely fascinated with the old old stone streets, wharf walls, and buildings.

Every time we’re here, I just get swept back to imagining pirates, scoundrels and wenches bargaining in the streets for all kinds of things.

We wandered along the entire length of River Street, poking our noses into a few places. We did purchase some turtles at one of the sweet shops. Dang they’re spendy!

All of the establishments have signs to wear masks. One place had a funny sign…I don’t know if occupancy is limited right now or not, but the sign said something like – Current regulations limit occupancy to 30%, so only people who can consume 3 drinks are allowed. Clever! 🍺🍺🍺. But sticking with our usual brewery theme, we went to Moon River Brewing Company. We’ve been here before, but thought we’d see what was on tap.

Kenny ordered a Barrel-aged Imperial Amber Stout called Cellar Dweller. It tasted like a dark stout or porter, but the color was so light it kind of messed with your head. Like, imagine drinking a Coke that was orange in color. Would it taste like Coke? 🤔. Or would your sense of sight mess with your sense of taste? It happens! Anyway, the beer was pretty tasty!

Then we figured we better find some food, since we hadn’t eaten anything yet today. There was a BBQ joint not too far away, so we went to test it out. Savannah Smokehouse BBQ & Brew.

We ordered some ribs and pulled pork. It was good, but we both agreed that the joint in Cocoa Village Florida set the bar really high at the beginning of our trip! That place was AH-MAY-ZING!

After lunch, we roamed around and found the City Market. It was a cute little place with some shops.

Also here was the American Prohibition Museum. This would probably have been quite interesting to visit, but we didn’t go in.

I saw this on the outside of the building. Apparently the first prohibition in America was before we were even a country! It was issued by King George II in 1735, decreed in Savannah: “Whereas it is found by Experience that the use of Liquors called Rum and Brandy, in the Province of Georgia are more particularly hurtful and pernicious to Man’s Body and have been attended with dangerous Maladies and fatal distempers…No Rum or Brandy nor any other kind of Spirits or Strong Waters by whatsoever name they are or may be distinguished…shall be imported or brought to shore.”.
Geeze George, what a buzz-kill, and he was clear across the Atlantic ocean from here!

This is another signature feature of Savannah – a park in the middle of an intersection. I really like the charm of this city, and I’ve written about a lot of it in our previous visits. It was fun to recognize some of the places that we saw when we did a Segway tour here a few years ago.

We went back down to the waterfront and saw not just the same cruise ship (American Star) that we were docked with in Fernandina, but her sister ship Independence were both docked along the waterfront. No wonder the waterfront was busy with a lot of people! And then we saw the quintessential paddle-wheeler going up the river…. without using its paddle wheel.

I was looking for one of those cool pirate lair kind of bars to duck into, but I think we turned the wrong way. So we ended up at Joe’s.

We have a son named Joe, so why not. We wanted to have a drink outside by the waterfront, so we were told to order to-go drinks, then just go sit at any table. Yep, that’s a thing here! Mine was a fancy fruity rum drink and it was so pretty and yummy!

I tried to get a selfie of us with the river in the background, but we were in the shade, so everything behind us whited-out. And then my cute date was being a goofball and wouldn’t look at the camera.

It was a super comfy day in Savannah – which hasn’t ever happened when we’ve been here before. The humidity was really low in the 20% range. It didn’t know that was even possible for here! After about five hours in town, we rallied up another Uber to take us back to the marina, and we just chilled out for the rest of the evening. We didn’t do anything super exciting or new while here, but we always enjoy the town. Tomorrow we’re headed to Hilton Head. I’ve only been there once by land, and Kenny has never been there, so it will be a fun couple of days of new adventures.