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!