The End of the Road

Today we drove from Tennessee across the state of Georgia.  We're ultimately heading to the Orlando area, but knew that we didn't want to push ourselves too hard with the kids.

We wanted several short days.  Today was one of the longer ones, but the next couple are deliberately much shorter.

Today we did have the traffic of Atlanta to deal with so we got a later start than we originally planned on.  However, I'll take a later day over getting stuck in traffic for several hours.  We ended up getting to Fort Pulaski National Monument only a few minutes before it closed, but it was enough time for us to buy our Interagency Pass (we buy one every year when visiting the first National Park site after our last one has expired).  I plan to post about the Fort later after we have more time to spend there and take plenty of pictures, ;-).

 Driving through the streets of Savannah was beautiful on our way to Fort Pulaski.


Amy was driving, so I opened the sunroof and put my phone up to capture this view of driving under the trees.

Leaving Fort Pulski we turned left on US 80.  Soon enough we crossed over to Tybee Island and actually ended up seeing the end of the road along with a sign informing drivers that the other end of this road is in San Diego, California.  I couldn't get a picture in time so I've included this screen-capture from Google Maps.

We managed to catch several glimpses of the Atlantic Ocean, but like any seafront town Tybee Island has quite a few buildings blocking the view.

While driving back through Savannah we saw this vintage Taco Bell sign.

We thought about staying at this place in downtown Savannah, but decided not to when we found out how much parking cost.

We ended up driving over this huge suspension bridge so we could enter South Carolina for a bit and I could cross it off my list of states to visit.  We do plan to visit the state again in the future--likely with a long weekend in Charleston.

The view from the bridge was also great.

The day's drive ended with a view of a beautiful sunset as we passed through the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.