Left you in Charleston, actually a campground outside of Charleston, not so hot really, but decent location. We went into town and had lunch at an institution, Hyman's. Been there since 1890! It was very nice, great service, great food, very interesting, our table had a plaque saying Kevin Costner ate there:-)
We had delicious she-crab soup with light as a feather wonderful hush puppies.
Sea bass croquette, shrimp, and collards |
Grouper, oysters, and a grit cake |
Then we walked the streets for an hour or so, the weather was perfect.
Then we moved farther south to Savannah, and stayed at a new place for us, Red Gate Farm. It is a working farm and event venue place, nice but the traffic noise was intense. We wanted to find oysters while we were there as the last hurrah for a while. We searched and searched, and we really didn't feel like going into downtown, both if us have been there many times before, but we hit pay dirt when we found Bluffton Oyster in the quaint town of Bluffton, SC. We splurged on two dozen oysters, fried shrimp, fried oysters, and had a cup of delicious clam chowder. An excellent lunch!
The other thing we wanted to do while in the Savannah area was to get a lot of fresh shrimp to freeze. We were very successful, and between two seafood markets picked up 8 pounds of fresh off the boat shrimp.
Then we headed north to Woodruff, SC near Greenville-Spartanburg to another not so hot campground, Fireside, kind of like a work camp, we even cut out a night early, but saving grace we found a delicious Vietnamese restaurant, Lemongrass in Spartanburg, so all was not lost:-)
The Banh Mi and the beef pho were wonderful!
Then since we cut out early we ran over to another uninspiring campground in Toccoa for a quick overnight, then on to Ellijay, GA to Talona Ridge, where we had a surprise visit from Jan's sister, Karen and Tom, in fact they pulled in an hour after we did. And they told us they were staying for more than a week! Great news, we have a lot to catch up on, it's been since the spring since we've seen them. There will be many lunches, dinners, and Happy Hours to come.