Exploring Savannah...

Rather than drive straight down to Jacksonville, we arrived just before midnight to spend two nights with Jimmy’s college buddy Malinda, whom I hadn’t seen since 2009 and he last saw in 2018, and her husband Newman. After retiring, they moved to Savannah, Georgia, where they built a beautiful house.  

Malinda works part-time as an official tour guide and was very happy to show us around downtown after lunch at a popular craft brewery. 

We visited the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, a neo-gothic sanctuary built in 1876 and rebuilt in 1899 after a fire in 1898. 

What a beautiful blue on the ceiling!

We also went to the Colonial Park Cemetery, opened in 1750, when Savannah was the capital of the British Province of Georgia. 

We had a nice dinner at home that evening. How fun to catch up with these sweet folks!

 

Off to the US...

I’m back! Sorry for the long delay! We finally have reliable WIFI after living for 3.5 months in our new flat, so it’s time for me to recommit to blogging regularly. Now back to January....

After returning from Holland, we spent two nights in a hotel before our next big adventure: flying to the US. This was the first time that we flew there together since 2015, although we had met up in 2016 in California and in 2019 in New York City. I still don’t know how I managed to score Delta Premium Select, which is like business class, for less than economy tickets, but we definitely appreciated the extra space and service. 

We were excited to attend Jimmy’s dad’s 85th birthday party in Florida, but also wanted to see family and friends in North Carolina. We opted to fly to Atlanta and rent a car rather than deal with flying between multiple US airports.