6/11/09 Richmond Hill, GA

6/11/2009 Richmond Hill GA

Out to Waffle House for breakfast, then into downtown Savannah.

We did a pretty good job of viewing the Roundhouse Railroad Museum, and some of the city museum in the trainshed of the old Central of Georgia RR station. A lot of the RR stuff is restorable and folks are working on it.

We took a very short "train ride" around the site behind a 44-ton and small coach. It would run onto the turntable, then into the shed on another track, out into a field after turning again, out again on another track. All the while, a person was describing the place and the plans for it. Very good site, not much in terms of rolling stock.

Then, it being very hot, we drove around Savannah and its "squares" and its great old houses. It's a beautiful place. I'll have to re-read "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", called hereabouts "The Book". Being here might even force me to see the old "Forrest Gump" thing, some of which was filmed here.

When we finished our ride around town, we took local streets back out to the little house, stopping for a late lunch on the way. Then back to the little house to avoid the heat.

The lake (pit?) next to the campground here is unique. In the evening, there are several white swans in it; at dusk a couple dozen white birds (egrets?) fly into the trees on the island in the pond. Quite a few Canadian geese, and several ducks seem to be resident here. Interesting.