In mid-March, we fled Minneapolis for Savannah and Charleston. It was a restorative vacation full of eating, walking, sipping, swinging, rocking, looking, seeing, and exploring. I have decided that in my next life I will dwell on a front porch.
The urban form in both places was unique, but Savannah’s culture and physical environment were more comfortable and pleasing overall. I’m now a die-hard fan of town-square-as-organizing-mechanism approach.
Check out our photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccharp3r/tags/savannah2007/. They are heavy with the urban studio curse: demand for additional resource library images. Maybe I should bill my vacation time to the office.
Favorite things (all involve porches, patios, or some other form of outdoor space):
- fried green tomato benedict with grits at Poogan’s Porch restaurant (we ate on the porch)
- police action views from our inn’s second story porch
- wine and rocking chairs on a porch overlooking the Savannah River
- late night exploration of Charleston, peering in windows and evaluating porches
- pizza and beer on the Mellow Mushroom restaurant sidewalk (kind of like a porch)
- coffee and lunch on the Gallery Espresso sidewalk (also like a porch, just not elevated)
- porch swing on the Tybee Island beach
April 19, 2007 at 9:21 pm |
Nice porches although I hear the best one on the eastern seaboard is actually in historic Mount Rainier, MD. You’ll have to come check it out! Were saved from Satan?