Went to Tybee Island this morning.  Located the lighthouse and then went over to the beach.  It was early and uncrowded--very enjoyable.  It is a very wide beach and is very clean.  You have to pay for parking everywhere on the island....there are no free spaces!  A local advised me to make sure I "fed the meter" because if they caught me it would be a $40 fine.  I was compliant.

 

Went back to Savannah for lunch at Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House.  Delicious and fun.  The meal is served family style with all the bowls and platters of food on the table.  You sit at a table of ten and unless your group is 10, you sit with folks you don't know. One lady at the table with me was from San Diego.  I told her that's where I was headed and she gave me some touring tips for when I got there.

 

Prior to leaving Savannah, I have logged 1196 miles on this trip.  After lunch, I got on the road--US 80 West. I have now started my western trip in earnest!  Leaving coastal Georgia, I went through numerous hamlets with names ending in -boro, and -ville.  Real Americana--some places being renovated, some abandoned has-beens.   The landscape looked a lot like rural Virginia to me. 

 

When I got to Macon, I had arranged to meet the parents of one of our friends from Waynesboro.  We have spent time with them numerous times over the years in Waynesboro when they came to visit their family.  But it was a special treat to see them on their own turf.  Mary and Sam are sweet people and I was blessed by the fellowship with them today.  Even though I did not want Mary to bother with a meal for me, she insisted that I have supper, so I relented.  We had the highly acclaimed local Fincher's barbecue for supper and it was mighty tasty.  ...And sweet tea!  Hey...I'm in the South where tea is made correctly.

 

Sam, Me, and Mary at their kitchen table

 

 

After saying my goodbyes to Mary and Sam, I was on my way again, following US 80 to Columbus, GA.  And that's where I stay tonight--on the edge of the Eastern Time Zone.  Tomorrow I enter Central Time Zone when I cross the Chattahoochee River into Alabama.

Current whereabouts:  Columbus, GA