Amateur Traveler episode 918. Today amateur traveler talks about live

Oaks and Stingrays, forts and middens, trains and the underground railroad

and ghosts as we go to Savannah, Georgia, this is Chris

Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Let's talk about Georgia.

I'd like to welcome the show Yvonne Johnson from Savannah, Georgia, who has come to talk to us about

Savannah.

Yvonne, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

And you are not originally from Savannah, but you have been there for a while.

Yeah, I'm from Sioux City, Iowa, and I moved here about 30 years ago.

I'm a professional musician and I play the viola in the Savannah Philharmonic and so I moved down here for my career.

Oh, wonderful. I haven't been to Savannah so you're going to be the expert here.

I have been to Sioux City, but we're not talking about that today.

So why should someone go to Savannah?

Savannah is just this perfect mix of,

there's beautiful weather if you come at the right time and there's great history and there's great restaurants and there's just so much to do and I've raised my children here and I have guests all the time and I just I love entertaining here

see. Excellent. What itinerary are you going to recommend for us? Okay I would start out

with choosing a shoulder season for your visit. That's pretty crucial because the heat can be pretty pretty tough here.

So I would choose late October or early November. It's cooling down then. Or you could choose late February, early March. The thing if you choose the spring seasons, you're going to get the azaleas and that's really beautiful, but the fall is a lovely time too.

Well the fall would overlap with hurricane season which as we've seen this year

you just never know. I've certainly traveled to the south in hurricane season and been lucky but on the other hand you never know.

Yeah that's something to consider to yeah and another thing I would do in advance besides planning the time of your visit.

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