Weekend in Columbia, Part 2 || Saturday, June 18, 2016 || Exploring the Downtown Area Today started off with us waking up earlier than planned, but that’s never a bad thing when you want to have as much time as possible to explore a new-to-you area. Like I said before, we didn’t really have a…
Weekend in Columbia, Part 1 || Friday, June 17, 2016 || Hiking & Letterboxing in Lexington County Last week was a challenging one for us. Curtis came down with a bad cold, the days of school seem long and never ending, and the heat and humidity are taking a toll on us. (I even turned on…
Today I’m starting a new little series where I share a few favorite places of ours, grouping them by what they have in common with each other to us. This idea was born simply because I find myself looking through old posts and pictures of places we’ve been and dreaming of the day we could go…
Weekend in Albuquerque, NM // International Balloon Festival // October 11-13, 2013 [A few weeks ago, I created a page indexing the trips we have taken over the years together. There were several on the list that haven’t been blogged about, so I’ve been wanting to go back and share the memories we have from…
A few months back when my family was visiting us here in Charleston, we ate at one restaurant (Acme Kitchen of the Lowcountry on Isle of Palms) where Curtis and I tried succotash for the first time. We haven’t stopped talking about it since. I understand it’s a pretty common Southern meal, but what made this…
Visiting the Charleston Tea Plantation // Wadmalaw Island // June 4, 2016 If you’ve been following the news, you may have heard that we were supposed to get hit by our second tropical storm in less than 2 weeks. Is this normal? Well, we got all sorts of warnings on Monday saying this is gonna…