We chose a place called Jekyll Island that is about 4.5 hours from Atlanta. This is a small island with 10 miles of beach. It used to be a private island owned by the rich and famous like Rockefeller, Goodyear, Macy and others. It's also the island where the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank wereformed when the wealthy met there on "their" vacations. Among the many places that I'd looked into to book our vacation, this was recommended as being a nice relaxing place.
We drove down on Friday morning. The weather has been so bad this month- it's rained almost everyday, we were hoping to get a bit of sun on our vacation. When we reached there at about 4pm, we checked in and hit the swimming pool since it was high tide for the beach. The resort had live music in the night and it was great going back for a swim in moonlight after dinner. We had a marvelous time at the beach in low tide the next day morning and got all tanned. Luckily, the temperature wasn't that hot that we'd be sun burnt. That evening we went on a dinner cruise on an entertainment ship. It reminded us of our cruise in the Kerala houseboaton our honeymoon.
The next morning (Sunday), we rented bicycles and went biking around the island. We biked along for 3 hours and more than 20 miles all the way around the island. Boy! That was tiring. But the island itself is very pretty so we didn't mind it. That evening we played a couple of rounds of miniature golf (since it was Raj's birthday, I let him win :-)) and walked for miles along seashore in the setting sun - relaxing, feeling a little bad that we had to leave the next day.
On Monday, we checked out of the hotel early and headed back home stopping on route at a city called Savannah. This was the first
city in Georgia and dates back to the 1776 American Revolution. We walked around the city and visited a couple of civil war forts nearby there. We finally got back home at 8pm after a great time.
