MONDAY!  We made it out of Jacksonville, Florida early yesterday afternoon and got as far north as Savannah, Georgia.  As usual, it was hot and humid along the way, but for the first time in several weeks (since Louisiana) we hit rain.  About 40 miles south of Savannah the skies opened up and we rode out the downpour in a McDonald's seeing which of us could throw a coffee stir stick hard enough to pop one of those balls in the playland jump house.

After the storm passed (and we'd popped 7 balls and put out some 6 year old's eye) we continued on to Savannah.  That's when it appeared on the horizon like a vision from God.  Most people know it as "Exit  94" off of Interstate 95, but we call it "Heaven on earth."  The exit ramp dumps you onto a cul-de-sac in the middle of nowhere, but it's what's on that cul-de-sac that matters.  In no particular order the businesses are a Travel Lodge (where we're staying), a Chevron (where we got gas) and.....wait for it......hold on......remain seated......a Waffle House, a Hooters and a  Harley dealership.  NOT KIDDING!

Folks, if it was up to us we'd never leave.  What more could anyone possibly want out of life?  Yeah, Savannah supposedly has a bunch of history, but why would anyone waste time on old stuff when they could walk from their lumpy $29 dollar a night bed across the street for waffles, motorcycle parts, and hot wings?  Listen, we know we had to leave there today and continue the Riding4Beer Magical Mystery Tour (our sponsorship contract with Budweiser requires it, damn it!), but we shed more than a few tears.  There are few such sacred places like this in the world (Jerusalem, Mecca, Detroit) and now we've visited one.  Anyway, we rode the Atlantic coast for a few hundred miles north and now we're in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina drowning our sorrows at - where else? - Myrtle Beach Hooters!....

      
  A Georgia "biker gang" - complete with tennis shoes!        Another road lunch - peanut butter crackers & Gatorade!

                   
       Stacy waits out a cloudburst under an overpass!                  Our motel view - Harley, Waffle House & Hooters!