Company from the West

Friday 4/15/11   Boating at it's finest. A beautiful day for our short ride to Isle of Hope Marina for our next stop to meet friends from home and pick up 2 new batteries for our inverter. That's when the phone rang. It was the marina on the phone telling me that the battery supplier had made a mistake and didn't have our batteries in stock and since it's a week-end couldn't get them until Tuesday. (grumble, grumble) What would we like to do?
What else can we do but wait. Anyway Kurt & Tina were do into town that evening for a short stay. We arrived at the Isle of Hope Marina and started hoping that our batteries would come as promised.

Kurt & Tina were on a road trip to any destination outside of Iowa when they remembered we were travelling up the coast. We became their destination wherever we were. They rolled in Friday evening in their 2 seater and after getting situated on the boat we put the top down and pretended we were in the homecoming parade on the way to dinner with the girls sitting on the deck behind the seats.

Saturday after a great breakfast on Tourist we decided to head into Savannah. This time we opted for a more conventional method of transport. The city bus which picks up a block from the marina.

Waiting for the bus.

Our ride. #31 route.

The bus was clean and the driver was friendly and the route is what you'd expect. Several stops, not always in the best section of town, and twice as long as it would take you to drive there yourself. A fun experience none the less.

Once in town we walked around for a bit. Had cocktails in a couple different watering holes and decided to take a carriage tour of the city.

Visitors from the west.

By the way. You can drink on the streets in Savannah!

Our view on the carriage tour!

Our tour lasted an hour and was full of information about the history of Savannah. Once off the buggy we thought it would be wise to check out places for dinner. Of course Paula Deen's restaurant came to mind. Oops! Too late. The sign out front said sold out for supper.

Lady & Son's     Paula Deen's restaurant complete with line waiting to get in.

After a couple more strikeouts we found a place that suited our needs. It was after dinner that the true quest of the day began. One member of our group had a craving for bananas foster. Our restaurant didn't serve it. Try Ruth's Chris. Nope try over there. Nope. Try that place. No again. Apparently no one in Savannah has bananas foster on their menu. We settled for chocolate martini's in a hotel bar looking over the Savannah River along with a couple substitute deserts.

Marilyn couldn't tell us where to find bananas foster!

Our day in town was fun, informative, and filling. Time to head back to Tourist. This time we took a cab with a driver named Romeo. The girls had fun with that one!

All too soon it was Sunday and time for Kurt & Tina to head out. But not before another homecoming queen ride to a local breakfast dive where we were too late for breakfast. Oh well. Guess we'll have lunch. And then it was time to get the car packed and say so long. It was a fun filled couple of days. Thanks guys for making us your destination!

Heading home.