I'd gotten a glimpse of Georgia's capital and largest city back in 2021, arriving by bus at night, desperately looking for dinner downtown, and flying out the next morning. I wasn't impressed; I was walking around downtown looking for someplace to eat and frustratedly found everything closed down. Considering this is one of the largest cities in the country, I found this really disappointing, especially since I'd just visited Savannah and Charleston. But I knew there must be much more that I wasn't seeing and that it deserved a second look. This time, I was impressed.

Savannah is one of my favorite American cities to visit. I saw this city once, for two days, back in 2021 right after that year's Suwannee Hulaween festival in Florida. So since I was going to Hulaween again in 2023, and wanted to do some post-festival trips in the following week, there was never a question Savannah would be the first stop. Especially since I'd read the "non-fiction novel" Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and wanted to see some of the places where scenes in the book were set.

Suwannee Hulaween is one of the best music festivals in the US. It's an eclectic mix of jam and funk bands with EDM producers from a range of subgenres. I'd been to this once before, in 2021, and while I couldn't make it back in 2022, I did have the opportunity in 2023.

While the first half of my Albuquerque trip was all about bouncing around on buses and visiting big museums, the second half would involve mostly driving to other attractions, and finally riding that RailRunner train to Santa Fe.