From Sea to Shining Sea

On Tuesday we left Stone Mountain, Georgia and drove to Savannah, Georgia and will be here for a week or so.  With this drive it marks a milestone for us in that we have driven cross country within one year.  You may remember that in January of this year we camped on the Pacific ocean in Ventura, California.  Here is a picture from that trip.

Ventura, California

Now being in Savannah we are at the Atlantic ocean.  While we are not camping on the beach we are just a few miles down the road.  Today we went exploring nearby Tybee Island, so here is a picture of the Atlantic ocean to complete our cross country trek.

Atlantic ocean as seen from the top of the Tybee Lighthouse.

On Tybee Island we went to an interesting restaurant for lunch, The Crab Shack.  It was mentioned in our Road Food book as being somewhat unusual and it is.  It is built as a shack with most of the tables outside on decks.  Each table has its own garbage can under the table with hole in the top of the table so you can put your shells, beer bottles, etc.  They have an alligator pond out front where you can feed the gators.  Here are some pictures of the place.

Gators!!

Following lunch we toured the Tybee Lighthouse and Museum.  We climbed the 174 steps to the top of the lighthouse!

To finish this post off here is an updated map of our journey to date.