Blogs from Charleston, South Carolina, United States, North America - page 7

Geo: 32.7812, -79.9316Late last night I received several emergency alert text messages about flash floods and thought my whole day today would be a wash out. Turns out it was a fairly decent day with only some light mist at times to drive people indoors. My plan was to start at the farm market, but I checked their Facebook page before leaving the hotel and found out the market was cancelled for today. Bummer! But no worries, there are plenty of other things to do in Charleston, even on a dreary day.I started off at the Visitor Center. I find this to be a great place to park and make as your base for exploring Charleston. Parking is not free, but is a maximum of $16 per day and all other parking areas seem to be ... read more

Geo: 32.7812, -79.9316Today I visited places I had not been to in my previous two trips to Charleston, Boone Hall Plantation and Charles Pinckney National Historic Site. The morning started off a bit brisk. It was in the low 40s when I ventured out to the car, but no snow so a positive sign! Both sites I planned to visit are located off Highway 17, a little north of Charleston in Mt Pleasant. I took the less congested route of I-526, which goes around the city and has several nice high bridges over marshes and portions of the Charleston port. Once back on Highway 17, the turn for Boone Hall is a left at a light and there is a sign shortly before letting you know the turn is coming up. The admission price is $20 ... read more

Fri., Feb. 21 We left Jupiter in the morning and headed north. I asked our GPS for restaurant recommendations and ended up having lunch at Mustard's Last Stand in downtown Melbourne. The menu had three pages of hot dogs. I had a veggie dog with cheese, coleslaw and BBQ sauce; it probably wasn't the smartest choice of food I've made this trip. :( We got to St. Augustine @ 3:30 and went right to a Comfort Inn and Suites with our Travel.com coupons. We couldn't use the coupon and were told we were lucky to get a hotel room because it was Daytona 500 weekend. We called our friends Danielle and Harvey and were able to meet them and their three beautiful daughters in their new house in St. Augustine. We had a very enjoyable dinner ... read more

We've been staying at the George W. Miller Volunteer House. It is the larger of two houses that Sea Island Habitat for Humanity makes available for volunteer groups; together they have bunks for 35 volunteers. The affiliate hosts groups in these houses most weeks from February through October. The house has five bedrooms with bunk beds, 3 1/2 baths, plus two vanities outside of the bathrooms. There is a large living room with lots of couches where we have been gathering each morning before heading out and at the end of the day for our reflections and team meetings. There is also a kitchen and dining room with a large table so that groups can prepare and eat meals in the house, but as our faithful blog followers are well aware, our group has been eating ... read more

We started out the day with breakfast at the Sunrise Bistro. Then we went to the Sea Island Habitat office for orientation. Sea Island Habitat for Humanity is the third oldest Habitat affiliate! Then we headed to the community of houses we will be working on this week. Five of our group headed to another site to do deconstruction work to salvage materials that the Habitat affiliate will sell in their Habitat Restore. Jobs at the main site today were finishing work; several of the houses will be closed on by the end of July. Karen and Pete arrived shortly after lunch. While we were out for the day, a new washing machine was installed in our home away from home. After our work day, we had a beautiful reflection from Pete, reminding us all how ... read more