Rural Georgia (16th September)

Today is a big day of travelling across rural Georgia. Abbeville is the Wild Hog Capital of the World and of course has a festival to prove it. Vidalia is the capital of the Sweet Onion and has a museum describing why and how it is the sweetest onion in the world. Claxton is the Fruitcake Capital of the World, and they are baking 24 hours a day to get enough cakes for the festive season. The Mighty Eighth Airforce museum is focused on the US involvement in Europe in WW2; the lives of the men and women who served, their impact on the war, the lives that were lost, the POW and the escape routes that were set up to get downed pilots away from the Germans when they were shot down. Very interesting.Our journey for the day ends in Savannah. The hotel shuttle is available to ferry us into town so dinner is by the Savannah River in old River Street. Just across that bridge is South Carolina. We will be exploring Savannah tomorrow.