Belles, Beaux and Bayonettes

Sorry I've been MIA for a while, this is partly due to my computer having a crack up and partly because I've been distracted by the likes of Rhett Butler and Ashley Wilkes. Yup, I've stuck with my original plan of reading Gone with the Wind (I'm only halfway through, so don't tell me how it ends!)while we travel through the South, and I think it's been one of the best things about the trip so far, learning about the Civil War while travelling on the roads and railways the Confederates and Yankees fought so hard for. History teachers take note, romance novels are way more interesting than lists of dates and names of battles. I also highly recommend ghost tours if you want an entertaining version of a town's history (I've done three so far and had a ball on all of them).
I think last time I posted we were in Orlando. Since then we've been to two of my faveourite cities so far: Charleston and Savannah. Both are mainly college towns, so as you can imagine geeky me was in my element. In Charleston we checked out the pub scene and I ned up in the beer garden with a buch of lit students talking shop. And Savannah has the Savannah College of Art and Design, so there are all these boys in too-tight jeans and colourful hairstyles and girls in men's shirts and paint splattered shoes wandering around with their sketchbooks. Both these towns are absolutely gorgeous (if, after I've got the Dr. in front of my name, there's an opening in the Charleston College lit/creative writing dept. I will be on the first plane back). Both have cobble stone streets (thank God for my sensible shoes). Charleston is full of beautiful old houses with mossy courtyards and the streets in Savannah are built around these gorgeous grassy squares with fountains, statues, box hedges and big shady trees hung with Spanish moss. During the day we've been spening our time wandering these peaceful parks and streets, then I've had that sense of beauty dashed at night, learning about the bloody history of these towns by taking ghost tours (and with the Revolution, the Civel War, pirates and the evil streak in human nature these towns have long and sordid histories).
We've now moved on to Atlanta to visit Tisha, and last night our arrival was greeted not only by Tisha and her friends, but a few frat boys and sweet tea vodka served in the big red cups thry have in the movies. Very excited about Atlanta!
Love Margs
xo xo xo