Day 11: In Charleston

Today I left the others breakfasting boringly on the boat and hiked to the restaurant right at the marina… where I luxuriated with corned beef hash on home-made hash browns with 2 eggs over-easy. Yum, yum, y’all!

Then we Ubered across town to the Port of Charleston, where we caught the ferry for a 35-min ride to Fort Sumter, where we had an hour that included a ranger talk (not that the ranger talk coming over on the ferry wasn’t memorable enough). Fantastic, superb, excellentissimo!! Google it. The story of Fort Sumter, as part of the American Civil War (oops… sorry southerners, the ‘War of Northern Aggression’) is of terrific interest, at least to me. Is it acceptable for a man to love a war story? Well, I love this one!

By the way, here’s a map for Kate.En savoir plus