Into the wild!

Currently, we're on Skidaway Island, Georgia, finishing up a week long trip here visiting the coastal region and enjoying the unbelievably beautiful squares of downtown Savannah. We've learned that the original town of Savannah was laid out by General James Oglethorpe in 1733 and the original 4 squares were designed as open space intended for the military to practice their drills. Over time, twenty more squares were added, making a gridwork of downtown beauty of lush plantings, spectacular water fountains, and outstanding Live Oak trees draping the squares with tenticle-like limbs draped with luxurious blankets of Spanish Moss. If you remember the famous Forest Gump movie scene where Tom Hanks' character delivers his "life is like a box of chocolates" line, you'll have seen one of these settings, as much of the movie was filmed in the Savannah area.

We came to the Savannah area to visit family as we were tired and had been "on the road" doing the festival circuit in Arizona and New Mexico since mid-February, when we sold our boat and became "landlubbers" again (if you have any interest in sailing the Caribbean, see our sailing blog: www.allergictocities.blogspot.com for those adventures). Then, in April and May we "set up camp" in Golden, Colorado, the home of Coors beer, for several weekend markets and shows in nearby Denver. Finishing those markets made us really feel Allergic to Cities, so we "escaped" to southern Georgia and the seclusion of this marshy island adjacent to the same stretch Intercoastal Waterway we'd traversed on our trip south two years earlier. This seems a to be working remedy for our current malady and we're feeling slightly re-fueled as we prepare to head off tomorrow for the high country of Colorado, and our home in Steamboat Springs.

We'll be basing from there this summer and doing shows in the greater Colorado area. We're really excited to be included in one particular festival: FIBARK, in Salida, Colorado over the long weekend of June 18-21. This is the US' oldest river festival and certainly one of the best. We'll have our Allergic to Cities tent set up and ready to go by Thursday and hope to see some of our new "allergic" friends in attendance. Stop by our booth and tell us you saw this on our blog and we'll have something special for you.

See you out there...