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 [This post brought to you by Curtis!] After our brief morning downtown, I was pretty disappointed. Yeah, the state house was cool and those sculptures were pretty sweet,…
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…
Part 2 of our MLK weekend adventure! Read part 1 here. After visiting Congaree National Park, we headed to the East side of Columbia to visit a state park and do some more hiking and letterboxing for the day. Since we have an annual SC State Parks Pass, we are always looking for a nearby park to…
Our first overnight adventure in South Carolina was just about as spontaneous as they get. On a Friday night before a 3 day weekend (MLK weekend, to be exact!), we were discussing what we could do, and the idea was brought up that we could do an overnight in Columbia and visit a couple state…