On The River Front

Travel Writing by Chris Bunton

We recently traveled to Savannah, Georgia, Brunswick, Georgia and Jekyll Island.

While there I did some research for the crime magazine, The Yard: Crime Blog; where I post True Crime Articles.

My wife Stacy and I, with our schnauzer Gus, did some research on the area before we traveled to find out how pet friendly certain areas are.

What we found was that many places in Savannah were extremely pet friendly.

We stayed at the Hotel Indigo down on the river front which gave us a pet friendly room with a pet friendly rate fee of $75. It’s a historic hotel, on the higher end of cost and class, but we have liked staying there. It’s our second stay at a Hotel Indigo. The first was in Alexandria, Virginia.

After getting checked in, there was not much left to do that evening except go down to the riverfront for dinner with Gus.

Even though Savannah is pet friendly, we discovered that Gus is not. He seems to enjoy freaking out on other dogs. This trip will give us a chance to work on that. We travel a lot and plan to take him. There are things he must learn. He’s still a pup at 11 months.

We ate out on the sidewalk at a restaurant called Olympia. It was a Greek themed restaurant.

When the waitress took our drink order she asked if she could bring out some water for Gus. Which he was happy for.

The food at the Olympia was excellent. We followed it up with some ice cream, which Gus loved.

We continued our stroll along the river walk trying avoid other dogs, while Gus freaked out. He met a few, but he just gets so excited and charges them barking. We needed to keep him calm.

I discovered that pet friendly hotels mean that you’ll be on the first floor so you can take your pet out to potty. Which I did. At midnight, 2am and 4am.

Basically, every time I woke up I’d look and see Gus staring at me. Then he would glance at the door. I think that’s dog talk for “take me out, man”. So I did.

This gave me a chance to take some night pics of down town Savannah around the Hotel.

I got my finger in a few of the pics.

After taking Gus to potty in the park across the street from the Hotel, I realized that they locked the doors. So, there was a moment of panic thinking I was going to have to call the wife to come open a door.

Then, I realized that the back door where the Valet stand is located was probably open. So, we went behind the hotel and got inside.

Savannah is a beautiful city with lots of things to do. We plan to return some day.

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Bio: Chris Bunton is a writer, poet and blogger from Southern Illinois. He has published in several magazines, and has written a poetry eBook called “Against the Man” and an Addiction Recovery eBook called “Made Free: Overcoming Addiction“ His newest book is called “The Future is Coming” and is a collection of dystopian short stories.

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