Savannah is a great place to walk around and enjoy all the history in the 25 town squares. Be sure to visit the St. John Baptist Catholic Church which is one of the most beautiful churches we have seen. Take one of the trolleys and hear about the history of Savannah featuring eighteen-century Georgian mansions as well as quaint contemporary townhouses. Get off at City Market and check out the neat shops and restaurants. Walk down Jones Street, a neat cobblestone street lined with unique colonial homes and Spanish moss covered trees. (However don’t take any of the moss as chiggers or red bugs live in the moss.) Stop and spend time at River Street. Although the area is a little touristy, we toured a boat called The Peacemaker. The boat was built in southern Brazil and launched in 1989. The Brazilian industrialist, Frank Walker, sailed up through the Caribbean to Savannah where he intended to rig her as a three-masted staysail schooner. But that never happened. In 2000 a group of people known as Twelve Tribes purchased the boat and have refurbished it, rigged her and set sail in 2007. The back of the boat drops down revealing two water tight doors that can be opened permitting access into the engine room. They are completing maintenance work in hopes to take sail this spring. The boat is 150 feet long overall with 12 bedrooms and 8 baths aboard.

We stayed at Skidaway Island State Park and highly recommend that for fellow RVers. It is a neat park only 15 minutes from historic Savannah. We also drove out to Tybee Island and enjoyed all the colorful cottages close to the beach. It was little to cool to walk along the beach but would love to do that someday. We stopped to see the Tybee Lighthouse which is the oldest and tallest lighthouse in Georgia. Then drove on to Fort Pulaski built in the19th Century on Cockspur Island to guard the river approaches to Savannah. While there we listened to a very interesting story and demonstration on the firing of the musket.

Savannah and the area is a great place to visit and we hope to return again another day.

Next on our travel was Mountain Lakes ROD Park in Langston, AL just south of Huntsville. We arrived in time for a music festival at the park which was great. Also to our surprise, November is the peak time for the colors and the leaves were fantastic. We spent many hours traveling around Lake Guntersville, enjoying the scenery and all this area has to offer. If in the area be sure to stop at the only Unclaimed Baggage Store that gets shipments from airlines, trucks and various other places ever day, twice a day.

Still just traveling around, we headed to Monroe, LA for a very cold week. We are sure Louisiana has more to offer than what we saw but there was not much in this area. We drove back to Natchez, MS and wished we would have stayed there for the week. The town has many old historic mansions that are opened to the public at different times. We chose to just drive around due to the windy cool day before heading over to Natchez Trace Parkway. Natchez was a tribe of Indians and the Parkway began as a series of hunting paths that slowly came to form a trail from Mississippi over the low hills into the valley of the Tennessee. The trail today extends from Nashville TN to Natchez, MS, about 450 miles. Back in 1700s Ohio River Valley farmers seeking markets would bring their crops and goods down the rivers to Natchez or New Orleans. Because they sold their flatboats for lumber, they would return home by either riding or walking the Natchez Trace. Although we only drove 90 miles north of Natchez, it was a very scenic and interesting drive. One day we hope to start in Nashville and drive the Natchez Trace Parkway in the coach, camping on the way.

The next portion of our trip was “reunion time” as we stopped in various towns in Texas to visit friends we use to live by, that we had not seen in several years. Now it is time to travel home for the holidays – this year home being Victoria, TX with Jack’s family.

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Safe travels to everyone during the holidays and in 2009.