First Day in Savannah, GA

Savannah is a beautifully laid out city, with 22 squares each surrounded by homes and commercial buildings. Our hotel was on Ellis Square near the top left of the map below:

Here are 3 views looking south from our hotel balcony. The first, below, is to the left:

And here's a central shot, showing Ellis Square below us:

And then more off to the right: (We were in the Andaz Hotel. You can see the sign on the building.)

Right after checking in we asked for a lunch recommendation, and it was suggested we go to Angel's BBQ, which is off an alley near Chippewa Square:

They had some serious hot sauce action there (the "Critical Mass" sauce lived up to its name!):

Jill's BBQ sandwich, beans, and mustard cole slaw:

My fried bologna sandwich and collard greens:

Jill, looking beautiful as always:

After lunch we went around the corner to Chippewa Square, which was just beautiful. We especially liked the twisting trunk on this tree:

We learned that Chippewa Square was the location for Forrest Gump's bench scenes. There's Jill on the left standing approximately where the bench (a movie prop) was located. There have been two major movies filmed in the last 20 years or so in Savannah, and it's a big deal for the locals. More on the other movie in the next blog entry.