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Travel Blogs from Charleston
At the beginning of the red-blue state divide
... to the Battery area. So much renovation of amazing stately homes. Saw bumper sticker, Gut Fish, not Houses.
From Bay St. we could see Fort Sumter way in the distance. We passed on the shuttle boat to take us out there, but we visited the Museum. So much history.
Tomorrow we plan to make the 15 minute drive to Folly Beach, hoping to capture a Pat Conroy feeling.
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Sun (at last), plantations and old syle colonial
Our drive south from New Canaan was surprisingly trouble free. We got mobile phone coverage back in the first hour, the bridges at New York were free, probably because a lot of people stayed home, the only thing that was causing others problems was the shortage of gas/petrol. Queues at the service stations on the New Jersey Turnpike were over a mile to get into them to fill up but our hire car started full so it didn't bother us. A phone call to US Airways and ...
Fireflies Make Me Sleepy
... spreading from South Carolina to other states throughout the southeast and, more recently, the rest of the United States. Success led them to quickly add more flavors to their offerings.
Altogether, Firefly offers 15 different flavored liquors, and at the tasting we joined, each participant was allowed to select six kinds to sample. I conferred with Michelle, and she chose six different kinds than I did so, together, we sampled twelve. The ...
On the water at last!
... beginning to make a habit of them. Hope to break that soon.
Mike was anxious to get anchors on board that would NEVER fail us. So we drove back to Punta Gorda to buy a big Fortress 55. Now he's satisfied that we are well-equipped to NEVER drag. Onward south to Daytona Beach; then a lovely anchorage in Mosquito Lagoon just before Cape Canaveral. No launches pending so onward to Titusville. Severe ...
Charleston...Made me love 'The Notebook' even more
... As I said in the last blog, I arrived late at night to Charleston and stayed at a best western hotel which was cheap and all I needed for a sleep and temporary stay until the next morning when I would head into Charleston itself.
I was up and out of the hotel by 9am after I had breakfast and I caught a taxi to the next hotel which wasn’t too far. I left my bags with the hotel as it was too early to check in which I expected and was happy to do, as I had a lot ...
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