Harbourview Inn Charleston

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At the beginning of the red-blue state divide

A travel blog entry by stevek28

Well Hing Ta was pretty good but the Manager/waiter was delightful. He told us that he always enjoyed going to Philly's Chinatown better than NYC.
Today after a meager breakfast, we left for Charleston, South Carolina, arriving 4 hrs later.
We are enjoying listening to The Racketeer by John Grisham as we drive.
In town we did a lot of walking, down King St ," South ...

Sun (at last), plantations and old syle colonial

A travel blog entry by redheadpeter

... trying to find the way back to our Hotel.

Today, Saturday, we visited two more plantations up and down the Ashley River, Drayton Hall which still has the original house (the owner fooled the Yankees into thinking it was a smallpox hospital) and Magnolia Estates which, like the one we are staying at, lost the house but has extensive and beautiful gardens and swamps and more alligators.

This time of year with cloudless skies and a warm sun ...

Mosquito Hell

A travel blog entry by cliff-n-chris

We had a long drive on Friday to Charleston, South Carolina. We just managed to get set up before there was a tremendous thunderstorm.

Yesterday we visited Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, located on the USS Yorktown. It was very interesting for us both to compare the 1960s US aircraft carrier with 1960's UK aircraft carriers that we had been on. US ships have much more room! After our tour it was very pleasant sitting on the ...

Summer Begins

A travel blog entry by sldusse

The Dusse summer is off to a fast start for everyone. First stop, Cocoa Beach, FL., to pick up surfer dude, Nick, and surfer dudette, Hannah. Nick & Hannah attended their youth groups' annual surf camp for the first time. Surfer dude, Nick, actually made it to the semi-finals during the annual competition of 250 surfers. However, it was his attempt at hanging 5 which knocked ...

The beautiful south.

A travel blog entry by andrewandlizzie

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... three days we just
didn't look under the bed- after all ignorance is bliss.

The next day was Lizzie's 22nd
birthday.... Remember, I am still just 21....She had brought her
birthday cards with her and I ensured she had a few things to open
and a cupcake to blow out. So there was some normality to the
birthday celebrations- it was very strange for her given that it was
her first birthday away from home but I think we made the best ...