We Take Ourselves With Us

There was a newer Second Cup (upscale Canadian Starbucks) across from our hotel, so we started Saturday with a quick brekky.  Look at how lovely and bright.  The kids are marveling at the built in flat phone chargers on the window counter. I was marveling at the flat white in my cup and the yummy steel cut oatmeal with steam sweetened milk and dried bananas and coconut in my bowl. Our cups are always half full ... at the very least.  In truth, they typically run over! Caffeinated and ready to roll. Our first stop that morning was a Back to the Future script reading featuring voice actors.  FE has never had an event like this before, and BTTF is having a moment--it's currently one of Penn's favorites, and we know the cool hunters' lead dog is always several yards ahead of the pack.  So, we made it a FE must do.  Clearly, he was right.  The reading was scheduled for the Convention Center Theatre, and by the looks ...

Accompanied by skies that were a bit thicker, we drove off Tybee Island on our last day, saying goodbye to the low country marshes we've visited so often.  While there this time, I reflected that most of our favorite family vacation spots have been islands: Tybee, Hawaii, England, and Manhattan.  Maybe the only thing they all share is that we love them. As many times as we've been to Tybee, we've been to Savannah twice as much.  It's a delightful and delicious city, filled with history (good and bad) and archetypal Southern-ness.  Among the yummiest Southern spots has to be Mrs. Wilkes .  I read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil right when it came out years and years ago.  It's what made me want to go to Savannah, to visit Bonaventure cemetery, to eat at Clary's , and to eat at Mrs. Wilkes.  If we have the time, we still get to Clary's, but we always make time to eat at Mrs. Wilkes. We were not alone.  Even arriving ...