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Several flights of stairs like this one took me a little closer to heaven. \u00a0Just a few days ago I had the opportunity to go up one of the bell towers of the beautiful Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Savannah. Even though I only climbed about two-thirds of the tower, the views were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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