April 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °CThese are just miscellaneous pics from walking around Charleston. The pink house is where we stayed. You can see how slanted the house is by lining up the telephone pole with the side of the house. It was a little disorienting inside. The horse and buggy pic was taken right outside that old homeRead more
April 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °CThe following day we drove over to Sullivan's Island and toured Fort Moultrie. Fort Moultrie was originally built to protect Charleston during the Revolutionary War. It was later used by the Confederates to bomb Ft. Sumter and then by the union army to do the same. We walked around the fort andRead more
April 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °CWe signed up for the Two Sisters Walking Tour of Charleston and it was really good. Charleston is basically one big outdoor museum so there's a reason the walking/historical tours are rated as the best "thing to do" on TripAdvisor. I was pretty bummed that the NCAA scheduled the UF v. South CarolinaRead more
April 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 24 °CAfter spending the night in our rather interesting Air BNB apartment, we got up early and headed to the Charleston harbor to catch the ferry out to Ft. Sumter. It was a very pretty day and it was cool to be able to see Charleston from the water. Given how adamant they have been about preserving theRead more
March 25, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 22 °COn our way from Augusta to Charleston we stopped at Drayton Hall which is west of Charleston. it is a plantation dating all the way back to 1738 and the only Plantation home near Charleston that managed to survive both the Revolutionary and Civil wars. The building has been kept largely in the stateRead more
March 24, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 18 °CLater in the afternoon, we headed over to the August after finding out that the Savannah River Canal tour had been cancelled because they ran the boat aground earlier in the day. The museum was really pretty good. There was, of course, a lot of info on Augusta National Golf Course and the TheRead more
March 24, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
We arrived a little before noon and got our own personal tour of the house that President Woodrow Wilson lived in as a boy during and after the civil war.
His next door neighbor and best friend, Joseph Lamar, was later appointed to the US Supreme Court by President Taft.
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