Vacation ideas

[jfkbengals]

(03-16-2022, 07:14 AM)WiregrassBenGal Wrote: Of those three you listed, you could probably get the most bang for your buck in Gulf Shores. They have (I think) the same sugar-white sand and emerald surf that they have in Northwest FL. Savannah could be nice and you could visit "the bench" from the movie "Forrest Gump." My family and I vacationed in Padre Island once, but I was 13 and Nixon was president. It has probably changed quite a bit, but the water there was brown and silver eels swam around. It is also close enough that you can take a day trip to Matamoros, Mexico.

It depends on what type of vacation you want to have. If you want to see antebellum history, go with Savannah. If you want to say you visited the second-most southern place in the U.S., it would be Padre, and if you want a nice, affordable beach vacay, it would be Gulf Shores.

Oh, and Oregon gives you the opportunity to see some spectacular Pacific coast beaches, such as Cannon Beach, the Columbia River Gorge, and other mountain scenery on the same day if you wanted to. They used to not have sales tax, so that makes shopping in Portland fun.

The bench has been removed due to the crowds, but you can still go to the intersection.


To the OP, we did the area for my better half's birthday a few years ago.  We rented a house on Tybee Island, a small island roughly 20 minutes or so east of the city.  Our intent was to split out time 50/50 between the two places, but we ended up only doing one day in Savannah because we REALLY enjoyed just relaxing on the island, everyday kicking back on the beach.  And in that day we really saw most of what we wanted to see.  Only big thing we missed from our list was a night time ghost tour.  Ubers were easy to catch from Savannah to Tybee, but not as easy to catch on the island.  But on our second to last full day we found there are multiple "taxi" services that will take you around the island.  Breezy Taxi was pretty fun to use.  Literally call the number and pay $2 a head or something like that to ride in a tie dye looking short bus with all the windows down.  Apparently the service started off in a golf cart!  Oh yeah, you can rent kayaks and golf carts as well.  Kayaking out to Little Tybee Island with dolphins racing you is pretty fun.