Saturday morning started off with a home made breakfast.

The breakfast was a great start of the day, good food and coffee on a beautiful table in the living room. We had coffee on the porch and then went for a long walk through the city.

Tonight we sat on our own balcony. We had dinner outside, and watched a thunderstorm passing by -- beautiful lightning.

Our breakfast table.

Coffee on the porch.

Gaston St.

Forsyth fountain.

The magnolia's were blooming and the city smelled great.

The Mercer House.

Savannah is located in the north of Georgia, just across the border with South Carolina. The border is actually a large bridge, as soon as you leave the bridge you enter Savannah.

We arrived around 9.30 pm in the city, and after some confusion between 'East Gaston' and 'West Gaston' we found 204 East Gaston St. All was fine until we looked at the house... spooky! We had heard about ghost and graveyard tours in Savannah but this looked like a place were you wouldn't wake up the next morning. A quick phone call made it clear that it was actually 402 East Gaston St that we were looking for and it did indeed look much, much nicer. We were staying in an renovated old house that is now a beautiful Bed and Breakfast.

After unpacking we walked to the river front, and there was live music and an art festival. It was getting late but we had done our research so around 11.30 pm we went to one of the few places that was serving food till late: Vinnie van GoGo. After a long drive their pizza and beer were very welcome and the food was delicious. It was only fitting that the place called after a Dutch painter served Grolsch beer. (I must say that perhaps my taste in beer is changing; I found Grolsch a little on the bitter side!). A great start of a great weekend.

Road trip!

204 East Gaston St.

402 East Gaston St.

Arrived in the room, before dinner.

The room, beautiful!

Today were the primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. Mr. Obama won, as expected, in North Carolina, but with a surprisingly large margin.

With Indiana being so closely tied (52% to 48% for Clinton at the time I write this), this looks like a very important night for Mr. Obama. The mathematics have been very difficult for Clinton for about two months now. Tonight's lack of a convincing victory, even after all the Wright publicity, bode bad for Clinton.

There were lots of other elections today. Ms. Perdue and Mr. McCrory won their parties nominations for governor. Mr. Walter Dalton seemed to have benefited from his annoying commercials and won the nomination for Lt. Governor.

We arrived home from a wonderful trip to Savannah, Georgia. It was only for two nights but it feels like we had a much longer vacation.

Going on a road trip together is fun no matter where we go but Savannah is a great place to visit. It has a really nice historical downtown that is preserved in the original European style. More American cities should have stayed with the city plans and European architecture that the first settlers introduced, haha.

We stayed in a bed and breakfast in the city center and everything was in walking distance. There's lots more to say and many more pictures; all this later.

This morning I brought the car to the dealership for maintenance service. We've driven more than 30,000 miles in the car by now.

The maintenance took a while, they cleaned the fuel injector and some other internals, but with their wireless access and a cellphone I could work pretty well.

A car wash was included, so the car is shiny inside and out. It drives better now, more smooth, and the brakes feel more responsive, especially the parking brake. In a few minutes I'll go back to the car for some final cleaning.

All this in preparation for the road trip that we'll start tomorrow afternoon. We're going to Savannah, Georgia and I'm really looking forward to it. We'll arrive late on Friday night but we'll have 2 full days in the city. The weather forecast is good; it's going to be 81 degrees.