Weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Day 3 || Featuring Lower Douglas Falls, Cowpens National Battlefield, Gaffney and Union, SC || Monday, July 4, 2016 On our third day of vacation we slept in a bit. We had plans for the day, but the majority of it was driving so we may as well get…
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…
We returned last night from our long-awaited, much-anticipated long weekend getaway to the mountains. This was the first real break we’ve gotten since before Curtis started school in February, and we took full advantage of every day off. Was that the smartest thing to do with Curtis’ upcoming test? Maybe not, but I’m pretty sure…
May 21, 2016 | Patriots Point | Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina Last weekend, we took the opportunity to immerse ourselves with all things Naval history and paid a visit to Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mt. Pleasant. We went in hoping for a tour and to learn from the history of this ship,…
Santee & Orangeburg, South Carolina | Santee State Park | Santee National Wildlife Refuge | Edisto Memorial Gardens | Wannamaker County Park | May 14, 2016 This past weekend we didn’t really know what we wanted to do. The weather was promising to be rather steamy, but we wanted to do something outdoors and with…
January 25, 2016 | Charles Pinckney National Historic Site If you ever want to feel inadequate about yourself and your accomplishments, you really need to visit here and learn about Charles Pinckney. This man did EVERYTHING. I’d like to say though that this was way back during the American Revolution, so technically there weren’t that many…