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  • Florian PfeilUSA-Südstaaten 2025
    Day 16

    Abschied von Atlanta

    April 27 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Gute zwei Wochen waren wir auf Tour durch die Südstaaten. Wo immer wir waren, wurden wir herzlich begrüßt. Mehrfach wurde uns versichert, wie gut und wichtig es sei, dass wir gekommen sind. Gerade die Whitney Plantation, die jüngst wichtige Fördermittel von der Regierung gestrichen bekommen hat, betonte, dass sie unseren internationalen Besuch auch als wichtiges Zeichen der Solidarität sähen. Jetzt ist es Zeit für unsere Rückkehr - und das „Dreamteam“ im Cockpit unseres Busses verabschiedet sich: Fahrer Jeff Hadaway, unser örtlicher Reiseleiter Sascha Ghods und Florian Pfeil von der FNA als akademischer Reiseleiter, DJ und „Chronist“ hier auf FindPenguins!Read more

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  • TravelerAmericas Great Loop
    14
    Day 10–13

    Day 11: In Charleston

    April 23 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    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.    Read more

  • TravelerAmericas Great Loop
    Day 9–12

    Day 9: Beaufort, SC, to Charleston, SC.

    April 22 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    5 hr 02 min. We depart Beaufort on another glorious morning and immediately encounter our first swing bridge... the Richard V. Woods Memorial Bridge, shown on our charts as Ladies Island Bridge. This was the bridge that featured in the Forrest Gump movie. Unfortunately for we tourists, we do not get to see it 'swing', as it's high enough above the water for us to easily slide beneath.

    We head off, on a mirror-smooth surface, up Mulligan Creek, past the Merritt Field Marine Corps Air Station and into St Helena Sound, and then jump across country, courtesy of a series of cuts made across the marshland, to enter the South Edisto River and onward via another winding course to the Stono River, the Elliot Cut (Wappoo River), and finally into Charleston's Ashley River and directly across it to the Charleston City Marina, where, at 1400, our booking scores a very convenient mooring (considering the length of some of their finger piers. One is 1,700 ft long before you have another 630 ft to go to the shore!). With a strong flooding tidal current and under advice from the marina dockmaster, Preston swings 45 North through 180 deg and slots us into a space between two other vessels. We make fast and thank our lucky stars for the berth.

    We leave Preston to his 'chores' and catch the marina shuttle bus into town, where we visit the Information Centre, look for a SIM card for Graeme, and walk a few blocks to a restaurant that Preston has recommended.

    More images to come...    Read more

  • TravelerAmericas Great Loop
    1
    Day 7–8

    Day 7: Sunbury to Savannah

    April 20 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    4 hr 10 min. Half a day today, up another sinuous portion of the ICW, again with the company of dolphins, and into historic Savannah for an afternoon of exploring. What will be open on a Georgian Easter Sunday? We'll see.

    Well, we pulled into the Isle of Hope Marina in a southern island suburb of Savannah, tied up, and left Preston to it as we ordered up an Uber and rode into the North Historic District of downtown Savannah, to catch a hop-on/hop-off bus tour... a 90 min circuit, and stay aboard if you want more; which we did to get back to the waterfront precinct for a very late lunch/early dinner. A totally excellent exercise!

    The so-called 'Spanish Moss' (which they tell us is neither Spanish nor moss) hanging from the Live Oak trees is such a 'down-home, southern feature, we can't help but think of numerous movies we've seen, including Forrest Gump, quite a bit of which was filmed in Savannah and its parks. Tonight we'll go back to the boat and get "Midnight In The Garden Of Evil" up on Prime Video. None of us has seen this and we should, as it features much of the Savannah we've just explored.

    Tomorrow, it's onwards to Beaufort (say BEW-fit) South Carolina, but tonight we have Georgia on our minds.    Read more

  • TravelerAuburn (Alabama), Allgäu
    11
    Day 6

    Zwei Tage in Atlanta 😃

    May 4 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Sonntag ging es für zwei Tage nach Atlanta. Angekommen sind wir erst einmal durch ein nicht so schönes Viertel gefahren. Nachdem wir bei Shake Shack einen leckeren 😋 Burger 🍔 gegessen hatten ging es Richtung Botanischen Garten. Sehr empfehlenswert und nicht zu teuer. Danach bezogen wir unser Quartier. Nach einer entspannten Nacht ging es am Montag morgen weiter. 9,1 km war die Route und hat uns sehr viele schöne Eindrücke und Facetten der Stadt gezeigt. Von schönen Parks, Street Art , Brauerei alles dabei. Am Abend fuhren wir nach Opelika (Auburn) zurück. Eine tolle Stadt die wir bestimmt nochmal sehen werden. 👍Read more

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  • TravelerAmericas Great Loop
    Day 14–15

    Day 14: Myrtle Bch to Wrightsville Bch

    April 27 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    7 hrs. We are provisioned and watered, we still have 800 gal of fuel, our blackwater tank has plenty of capacity (Preston wants to know who among us must be blocked up and not 'doing enough'?), Graeme unties us, and by 0830 we're turning out of the Yacht Club Marina and back onto the ICW, northbound. The stranded yacht has gone. Within 15 min we're crossing the Little River and are in North Carolina. Since one of my favourite singers, James Taylor, hails from this state, Carolina is also in our minds.

    It’s a scenic run up the waterway, but turning out into the Cape Fear River, we run upstream with a stiff breeze on our port bow and a stiff ebbing current. We dodge a couple of vehicle ferries, a clutch of downbound fast-boats, and overtake a sailboat or two. We’re showing 15 mph through the water but just 10 mph 'over the ground'… thus a 5-mph current against us.

    Soon though, we’re able to turn off into the ICW again, via Snow’s Cut, and then run about 12 miles from Carolina Beach up to the Wrightsville Beach Marina. At times, we're showing the tide to be a foot lower than the usual low, so we tip-toe along some areas with not too much below our keel. We arrive at the marina where we are berthed conveniently on the outside facing the direction of departure tomorrow. The staff take our lines and do a pump-out for us... the opportunity being too good to pass up.    Read more

  • TravelerAmericas Great Loop
    11
    Day 9–12

    Day 10: In Charleston

    April 22 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    We are tied up at the "Safe Harbor" (that's the company that owns the marina) Charleston City Marina. Next to us, and five metres away on the other side of the pier, is "Powerplay", an ocean-going tender (support vessel) for a luxury super yacht, "Mogambo" owned by Jan Koum, the co-founder and CEO of WhatsApp.

    Today we breakfast aboard, then catch the marina shuttle uptown to board a 90-min bus tour of the city; as usual, a superb use of time, with an amusing and professional driver.

    Later, we examine a full-size replica of one of the very first steam locomotives to operate in the Americas, the "Best Friend of Charleston", and then visit the Charleston Museum to learn something of the history of this old town.    Read more

  • TravelerAmericas Great Loop
    Day 8–11

    Day 8: Savannah, GA, to Beaufort, SC

    April 21 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    6 hr 09 min. Remember to say 'BEW-fert'. We still have Georgia on our minds, and it's hard to believe we're in the city of Savannah as we depart on the Skidaway River, with a hard right rudder to immediately negotiate the first turn from the marina. The various suburbs are just through the trees, but you can't see them. Savannah is a major ocean port. There's a lot of industry around here. We get out of town safely.

    Another day of cautious cruising on the sinuous ICW follows, with Graeme accruing some more helm-hours in his virtual logbook.

    Despite tying up at Beaufort's Safe Harbor Marina right at downtown, at 1400, we're too late for the various horse-drawn and golf-cart tours of the town. The last ones are just leaving and they're all booked out. Seems we're not the only visitors in this historic town.

    We walk around and visit the Visitors Centre and an original house that is now a museum that presents the history of Beaufort... first the War of Independence then indigo then cotton then slavery then the Civil War (often known in the south as the War of National Aggression) then 'reconstruction', and now tourism.    Read more

  • Florian PfeilUSA-Südstaaten 2025
    Day 2

    Die Architektur von John C. Portman

    April 13 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Auch architektonisch ist Atlanta interessant als Heimat des neofuturistischen Architekten John C. Portman, der für seine Hochhäuser, insbesondere Hotels, berühmt ist. In Atlanta hat Portman die Skyline nachhaltig geprägt, vor allem mit dem runden und komplett verspiegelten Westin Plaza. Berühmt ist aber auch das Marriott Marquis, wegen seiner außergewöhnlichen geschwungenen Fassade auch das „schwangere Hotel“ genannt. Das faszinierende am Marquis ist aber nicht so sehr sein Äußeres, als seine inneren Werte: Markenzeichen Portmans waren die mehrgeschossigen Atrien. Rekordhalter war das Marquis: Mit einer Höhe von 143m erstreckt sich das Atrium vom Untergeschoss bis zur Decke des Gebäudes. Von seiner Eröffnung 1985 bis zu Eröffnung des Burj al-Arab in Dubai 1999 hielt das Marquis den Rekord als höchstes Atrium der Welt.Read more

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  • TravelerAwesome Tour 2023-2024
    Day 57

    Hard Rock Café Atlanta

    November 23, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    Thanksgiving in den USA

    Wir bleiben auch heute noch bei Ken im Garten stehen. Den Tag verbringen wir mit Football schauen bei unseren Kindern und Abends gehen wir ins HRC nach Atlanta lecker essen.

    Schön war’s.    Read more

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