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At the beginning of the red-blue state divide

A travel blog entry by stevek28

... 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

A travel blog entry by redheadpeter

... town, so well preserved they don't even allow cafes and restaurants!)After several hours of that we jumped back in the car and headed out the 10 or so miles to our hotel, the Inn at Middleton Place is a hotel/Inn on the banks of the Ashley River in the grounds of the former Middleton Plantation. (These are rice plantations here, not cotton) The Inn itself is a group of modern buildings about 10 minutes walk from the plantation house itself (though what is there now is ...

Moncks Corner and Santee Canal

A travel blog entry by jilnmike

... It had a total of 10 locks. Originally boats and barges were pulled through the canal by mules and horses. Later the mules and horses were replaced and the boats were pushed through the canal with poles by their crewmen.

The park includes the Berkley County Museum, the Canal Interpretive Center, Stoney Landing House, the Old Whitesville Schoolhouse. a dock on the Cooper River, interpretive trails and boardwalks into the swamp and canal observation areas. ...

Brrrrrr....

A travel blog entry by hejira

... crossed through it to the narrow canal that led to the continuation of the ICW, we got a call on the radio from Om Shati, the other boat from New Hampshire that the boys had met in Wrightsville Beach. They were a ways back but spotted the dark hull and gave a call to see if it was us. An hour or so later, they caught up and passed us through the ICW - it was fun to catch a peak at the boat that Pete and Connor had told me about. Maybe we’ll ...