From Trolleys to Foot Walks to Carriages in Old Savannah, Georgia

Savannah, seventeen miles up the Savannah River from the ocean, boasts a historic district arranged around twenty-two Spanish-moss-swathed garden squares surrounded by just about every architectural style of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Cast iron seemed to adorn itself everywhere on most of the buildings.


We started with an Old Town Trolley hop on, hop off narrated tour to orient ourselves to the city.



It didn’t take long to discover that Savannah's combination of colonial architecture and southern charm are one of many reasons which have made it such a popular destination. In more recent years, fans of the Savannah-based book and movie, "Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil," have flocked here to see the Bonaventure Cemetery.

Each of Savannah's 22 garden squares has a monument to honor a hero

Forsyth Fountain design was taken from one at the Crystal Palace in London

Others find the Green-Meldrim House above where General Sherman set up his headquarters on his “March to the Sea” in 1864 of interest off Madison Square.                                                   


                               JR spotted this celebrity around the corner taking a run. 

Oh my God,,, Guess who?

Hello, my name is Forrest Gump, Mame.

Christa shared some laughs with Forrest on the sidewalk

This is the only place in America selling Girl Scout cookies every day of the year.

Juliette "Daisy" Low House, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA

Grand steeple churches such as the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist became good trolley hop off spot for photo opts.

 We found the best way to experience what Savannah had to offer is to stroll the city’s streets and soak in the beauty of the moss-draped squares and their monuments.

 The renovated Lucas Theater with its decorative plaster and gilded molding was extremely impressive. 

Both the City Market and cobbled waterfront on the Savannah River edged by towering old cotton warehouses have since become popular areas with gift shops, boutiques, galleries and restaurants.

Paula Deen, the famous southern cooking celebrity, originates from Savannah. Folks are seen lined up for a block trying to get seating at her restaurant

We opted to have lunch at Five Guys for cajun fries, burgers, and a bacon doggie instead of trying Paula Deen's Lady & Son joint's southern comfort foods (blackeye peas, chard,fried chicken,ham and grits,etc

Wormsloe Plantation 

Savannah’s Wormsloe Plantation had a gorgeous stone entry gate and spectacular main drive lined in large oak trees covered in Spanish moss. It provided a chance to admire the mile long stretch of live oaks used in the "run, Forrest, run" scene of Forrest Gump and work off some calories on the hiking trails.

For a paranormal experience, a ghost tour by horse carriage in the dark for some of Savannah’s haunted tales, became a strange, but fun sort of date night as we bid farewell to Old Savannah