Every trip south of the Mason-Dixon Line strengthens my resolve to move to the southeastern US.  Yes, there are hurricanes and health care is different -  there’s just something about this part of the world.  Certainly the proximity to Walt Disney World is helpful and the weather is (for the most part) favorable, but there really is more to it than that.   There’s a real vibrance in cities like Savannah, an energy that I find lacking back home.  It’s  most starkly brought into relief during trips away from Ottawa.  Is Ottawa, as Ken Gray posited in yesterday’s Citizen, a City without a soul?  It’s probably not as vanilla as he paints it, but it is missing something.

Clearly, this post is useless without photos - I brought the camera but not a USB cable.  In any event, we went by Grayson Stadium today, the home of the Savannah Sand Gnats, the single A affiliate of the New York Mets in the South Atlantic League.  I’ll have to add the photos, but like Centennial Field in Burlington, this place is amazing.  We weren’t able to get in, but through a gap in the fence we were able to see they’re in the process of putting in new sod.  The stadium itself seats about 5,000 and was constructed in 1927.  What I had not known until just recently was that Miles Wolff was a GM here when the team was the AA affiliate of the Atlanta Braves  (the Savannah Senators?).

It’s a beautiful baseball venue, in a beautiful city.   That much at least, reminded me of home.