Weekend Trip to Augusta, Georgia and Northwestern South Carolina | Part 2 | April 23, 2016 [Read Part 1 HERE – all about our time in Augusta and Sumter National Forest!] As soon as we got off the main highway that passes through Abbeville and started to head downtown, we knew we had come across…
River’s Bridge SHS | Ehrhardt, SC | March 19, 2016 A few weeks ago, we spent the day visiting River’s Bridge State Historic Site, one of the only places to see any action in South Carolina during the Civil War. It is nearly 2 hours from Charleston – pretty much in the middle of nowhere. 😉…
2 Day Trip to King’s Mountain/Crowder Mountain on the SC-NC Border | March 4-5, 2016 | Part 2 After our time at Crowder Mountain State Park, we made the short drive over to Kings Mountain National Military Park. I believe I have actually visited this place before, way back in 2000 on a family vacation….
Visiting Fort Sumter National Monument | Charleston, SC | March 2016 Last weekend when my family was in town, we took the boat tour to visit Fort Sumter National Monument in the Charleston Harbor. Both the boat ride and the tour of the fort were a great experience, so today we are doing a post highlighting the…
Road Trip through Eastern South Carolina | Saturday, February 20, 2016 | Featuring Huntington Beach State Park, Prince Frederick’s Chapel Ruins, Francis Marion National Forest, Mepkin Abbey The inspiration for this weekend adventure was simply that we had gone South on highway 17 for 2 weekends in a row, and decided this time that we…
Day 4 of our Valentine’s Weekend Getaway | Palm Coast, Florida | Sunday, February 14, 2016 It was our last full day in Florida, and we had saved the things we knew we’d love for Valentine’s day: hiking and letterboxing! We ran out and grabbed some heart shaped donuts for breakfast, then took off heading…