SAVANNAH. LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES!

          TUESDAY, MARCH 27TH., 2018
SAVANNAH. LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES!

    We stopped on our return trip from Florida to
take a trolley tour of Savannah, Georgia!
     The place truly is like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're going to get. Or,
in this case, see!
      The city is filled with beautiful historic
buildings. Many look exactly the same as they
did when Savannah was the cotton shipping
capital of the south.
       It's hard to believe that, when formed, this
community had some very strict rules.
       No Catholics. No drinking. No slavery!
That last one truly surprised me until I learned
it was a neighbor to the north (North Carolina)
that pressured Savannah into changing the
regulation in the name of commerce!
       And let's get back to that "box of chocolates."
The tour company with which we traveled has
a number of notable people step on the bus during
you trip round the city to add some "spice" to
the trip.
        Our group was especially happy to have
Forest Gump (or a reasonable facsimile) board
the trolley to say hello and offer some of his
sound advice. It was appropriate since the
scene where Forest is sitting on a bench
waiting for a bus and telling his stories was
filmed in Savannah! And the feather you saw
falling at the end of the movie was dropped
from a church steeple in the downtown.
         After the tour a fine dinner at a local
pub joined by my wife's sister. All in all
a really great day!
         That's all I have to say about that!
Hope all your NEWS is good!