Since I was already heading to Florida, I decided to fly into Atlanta and visit several places in Georgia. On my route back from Florida through Athens and on to Atlanta, I noticed I would go through Savannah, a city I really liked when I visited in back in the 1980's. And, a fellow Toastmaster recently moved from Wichita to Savannah (because of his wife's job there). I contacted him a couple of months before flying into Atlanta to see if they would be available in the early afternoon for a possible late lunch.

In the end, however, two things happened that caused me to skip this town. One, I never heard back from the Toastmaster buddy. Two, I saw the weather forecast for Athens on Tuesday (the day I was slated to arrive) called for rain. So on Monday I drove from Jacksonville through Augusta (which I really dislike the traffic and traffic flow of that town) then on to Athens