The More North You Go, the More Southern it Gets

Day two of Amy & Jules's Road Trip started early with a run. It was nice. An easy two miles along the little state highway our hotel was on. And it was nice to get the body moving after a day in the car. After breakfast and showers and such, we headed over to the Kennedy Space Center. Which is still awesome. In the, like, literal sense of inspiring awe. Because, um, we send things into SPACE! People, vehicles, robots...

(The robot-y narrator for this particular tour no less than for times declared in a declareful voice "Robot Scouts! Trailblazers for HUMAN EXPORAAAAATIOOOOON!" It was super cool.)

And there were Vehicle Assembly Buildings and Launch Pads and crawlers and a Saturn V rocket:

AND you can still touch a moon rock, which, as you can tell in the picture below, is VERY exciting:

After the Space Center, and a super fast lunch, we headed north again. We (finally) left Florida (it's a LOOOOOOOONG state). Not long after getting into Georgia we started seeing signs for a road side peaches stand, and obviously had to stop:

With delicious peaches and some way super yummy peach bread to tide us over til dinner we kept on driving until we got to Savannah, GA for dinner and river walking. Dinner, unfortunately was subpar. While we each enjoyed several of the elements of what was for dinner (fried pickles, the hot bread and cheese, the grouper, the salad) as a whole neither of us was really craving the heavy, grease-laden fest that is southern cooking and walked away feeling full, but not really satisfied. Oh well. You win some, you lose some.

The river walk, though not as lovely as San Antonio's, was still quite charming, and I think we didn't make it quite all the way down to the really charming part, since we got quite distracted by a local artists coop and a store called Fine Things Under $20 where Amy bought a belt and a purse, and I got some sweet shades.

We decided that we liked Savannah and would like to go back and spend more time there, but unfortunately, we had miles still to go.

We were pleased that they mostly involved a smaller state highway again instead of I-95 which is fast and straight, but also less interesting than the side highways. Amy swears that she saw a dude wrestling an alligator just off the road, but since I did not witness said wrestling, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of that tale. There was also a point at which we were on GA-17 North and GA-21 South at the same time (while heading east of course).

We are currently getting ready for bed in our Charleston, SC hotel, at which there is a lot of front porch sitting happening. Some lady, in fact, is sitting right outside our window explaining how to cook crawdad's or some such and it's totally making me laugh (though in a bit when I'll be wanting to sleep I'm sure I'll be less amused.)

Tomorrow we'll be exploring Charleston a bit and then continuing our trek.