Weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Day 2 || Featuring Roaring Fork Falls, Tom’s Creek Falls, Montreat, and the Blue Ridge Parkway || Sunday, July 3, 2016 The day after our big hike, we decided to take it easy and do a driving tour around the Pisgah National Forest. Curtis had gotten in contact 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…
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…
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…
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…