Today was a busy day. When your away you always try to accomplish everything. Today was one of those days.

We left the house at 09:00 a.m. to meet up with Judy and David who live here in Bluffton. What great people. Jean has known Judy for years and she wanted to make sure that we were introduced so we drove over to their magnificent home in Hampton Hall.

After the usual introductions we all headed out to Beaufort, South Carolina. A town with endless tales of revolutionary war and amazing pre-civil war homes with lots of stories to tell. It's amazing to know that a city like Beaufort exists in America today. The architectural societies need to be applauded for saving so much of the history here. We loaded up on a wagon with Jake the horse at the lead and we click, clacked for close to two hours through the historic town of Bluffton. Visions of revolutionaries, slaves, cotton fields abound. The main exports were in fact cotton and indigo.

From there we drove over the bridge into Hilton Head for lunch. Jean wanted to make sure that we had dinner at an excellent seafood restaurant Hudson's where we all pigged out on everything seafood, including soft-shelled crabs - the first of the season. After we dropped Judy and David back at the house, we set the GPS for Savannah which was about a 35-minute drive from Bluffton.

For years we've thought about going to Savannah, but it was somewhat of a disappointment over what we saw in quaint Beaufort and Bluffton. We ended up taking a hop-on/hop-off tour bus driven by "Tammy" - a lady from Winchester, Tennessee that drove the bus with her left foot, her whole body turned to the passengers and just couldn't stop talking - must have been the Red Bull. We even got to drive by Paula Dean's famous Savannah restaurant, Lady & Sons. The most appealing thing about Savannah was their town squares. Originally there were 24 squares within the historic downtown (now only 22) that allowed the residents of the 1700's to mix, mingle and socialize.

Driving back to Bluffton, we opted for dinner in the little town rather than hang in Savannah until after dark, we felt that we should make it back as there as town bylaws do not allow any neon signs or street lights in some areas so dark is dark. Next stop tomorrow will be Jupiter, Florida. It will be nice to get back to my stomping grounds and see our old condominium on Singer Island along with the home that I once owned in Jupiter. It'll be interesting to see what they look like now after 35 years or so.