Things to Love about the Blue Ridge Mountains
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Things to Love about the Blue Ridge Mountains

We just returned from a long weekend getaway to our new favorite place in the Southeast: the Blue Ridge Mountains. This proved to be the most enjoyable escape from life in the Low Country, and as always, left us with a better understanding of the world and of each other. So today, as I sort through…

Middleton Place
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Middleton Place

Middleton Place || Charleston, SC Well, we decided to suck it up and pay a lot of money to go see another plantation and big tourist attraction here in the Charleston area. There are several on our bucket list, but we’re no longer really trying to hit every one of them – that’s just more…

Weekend in San Diego
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Weekend in San Diego

Weekend in San Diego, California || Jess’ 21st Birthday Weekend || October 25-27, 2013 Another “throwback” post with fun memories from our first year of marriage. 🙂 Only 2 weeks after our trip to Albuquerque, NM, we took off on yet another vacation for October of 2013. It was my 21st birthday weekend, and since…

Dog Days of Summer
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Dog Days of Summer

If you’re one of those people that misses the days when I would post a bunch of silly phone pictures of Charlotte while giving random life updates, you’re in luck because that’s what I’ve got for you today! So, we’ve gotten a good taste of what a Southern Summer is like, and it’s not exactly one…

Historic Camden // Topiary Gardens
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Historic Camden // Topiary Gardens

Weekend in Columbia, Part 3 || Saturday, June 18, 2016 || Visiting Clemson Sandhill Research area, Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site, and the Pearl Fryar Topiary Gardens After our brief morning downtown, I was pretty disappointed.  Yeah, the state house was cool and those sculptures were pretty sweet, but that was it.  It wasn’t even…