Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans.
And what better way to celebrate our freedom than a cheesecake Marilyn Monroe moment, immortalized in plaster?
Yesterday was a taking-it-easy kind of day in lovely Savannah, hanging around the Ellis Square area (where I saw that Monroe statue), then later, the walk along River Street. And while the heat was kind of on the oppressive side, a warm breeze would waft its way from the river every so often and kinda sorta wick away the sweat. I'm the kind of old-school guy who carries a linen handkerchief in my pocket to wipe away the sweat, and by the end of the day, I could have wrung the sucker out. If I had a straw hat and a seersucker suit I might be able to tolerate this kind of heat on a regular basis.
My favorite part of the River Street area? The crazy Exorcist-style stone steps leading down from Bay Street. I mean, look at this:
The crime writer in me is so jonesin' to set a chase/gunfight here. (This is why crime writers are rarely invited places. We ruin everything!)
E. Shaver, the bookstore recommended to me by my friend Andy Junkin, was indeed closed (it being Sunday), but I'm hoping to return one day to check it out. And when I return, I hope to finally meet up with my favorite Savannah resident, book blogger Elizabeth A. White (a.k.a. @APMonkey to you folks on the Twitters). Again, just more reason to return.
Today we'll be spending the Fourth making our way down to Florida, and eventually, Tallahassee. Shockingly, this will be my first time ever in the state of Florida. How did I live almost four decades without migrating South?
Postcard update: Today a set of Savannah postcards are going out to Kevin B. in Ocean City, NJ; Peter D. in Chanhassen, MN; Jeff Z. in Daytona Beach, FL; Laszlo D. in West Hills, CA: Kevin T. in Whittier, CA; Josh L. in Parkersburg, WV; Bob G. in Cincinnati, OH; Hassan A. in Calabasas, CA; and Jeff M. in Exton, PA.
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