On Saturday, April 27th. Lizzy took Tammy and I to the airport for a week's vacation in Charleston, SC. We landed around 6pm and stayed the night at a North Charleston hotel beside a functioning mall where we had dinner at the food court. I also had the first ever experience of sitting in the emergency exit row giving me lots of legroom. This happened not only on the first flight but the second as well and all while flying on Southwest.
Sunday morning, we headed to the city of Charleston for our Fort Sumter Tour followed by a visit to the International African-American Museum. Afterwards, we headed to what would be our residence for the week right downtown. It was on Coming Street but would have been better named Going Street because it seemed to me that everyone leaving the city had to use it. Thank goodness I packed the sound machine. Dinner was at a Tapas restaurant which we learned means small plates=big prices.
Monday we ate the oatmeal Tammy had packed and then walked to our first tour of the day -- a three hour historical walking tour of the city. A lunch of fish and chips was eaten at the Griffon followed by our second walking tour of the day -- hidden alleyways of Charleston. As we were heading home, we stumbled upon the City Market where we bought a whole strawberry key lime pie for dessert. We traversed a total of 7.9 miles this day. In total for the whole, week we walked an astonishing 35 miles.
Tuesday was easier on our feet. After our oatmeal breakfast, we made our way to the tour for that day -- a scenic van ride to 12 must see spots in the surrounding Charleston area. The six hour tour ended with a water taxi that took us from Mt Pleasant to Charleston. From our drop off location, we walked to a soul food restaurant named Hannibal's for dinner.
Wednesday we ventured out on our own and made the drive to Boone Hall Plantation. We took advantage of all the various live presentations. As we made our way back home five and a half hours later, in the distance, we could see an approaching storm. We beat it home but decided to stay in from the rain and eat the mac n cheese Tammy had packed. Once the rain stopped, we went for some cupcakes and a walk up and down King Street.
Thursday saw us begin the morning with bagels from across the street from where we were staying followed by a second day of self-adventure starting with a stroll on the Shem Creek boardwalk. We then drove down the road to the Patriot's Point Museum to explore the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier, the USS Laffey destroyer, and the Vietnam Experience. We again spent what seems to be our normal amount of time at museums -- five or so hours. We went to the restaurant Rarebit for dinner because I was interested in trying shrimp and grits. Turned out they only serve it Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so I had the country fried steak.
Friday morning was departure day from our downtown AirBnB but not from our adventures. We got ourselves north for a (you guessed it) five hour visit to Cypress Gardens. A thirty minute drive from there put us at our hotel for the night but not before a dinner of shrimp and grits at the Grits Bowl restaurant right next door and Zack Williams' A Thousand Highways Concert located right behind that.
Saturday morning we flew back to CT.
Lots of pictures to see: https://photos.app.goo.gl/fhvg4tzVqaLd9UnA7
2 comments:
I wanted to leave a comment, so you know that someone is interested in reading about your life!!!!
Great pictures - you guys always have the most amazing trips. Loved the pictures.
Randi
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