Blogs from South Carolina, United States, North America - page 2

Yesterday was all Interstate-95 driving and stressful in spots. Today was all back county and country roads and it was relaxing and enjoyable. Leaving Savannah and heading north took me over that really high bridge I photographed last night on the cruise and I was immediately in South Carolina. Being in no hurry, I took a ride off my route and headed for Hilton Head. My plan was to drive down the beach strip and see how things had changed since the last time I was there. I think that was almost 20 years ago. Unfortunately my GPS didn't cooperate and took me the some city building in Hilton Head which was nowhere near the beach. Leaving there I realized I was going the wrong way and ended up at a Wildlife Preserve. That was a ... read more

My daughter Tanya and her boyfriend Ben came at 8:30 to take us to GSP Airport. We arrived at GSP and checked in. I had been worried about my passport, since it expired right around the 6 month time frame I read about. Apparently I was wrong or it was okay. The other thing I was worried about was our backpacks being too big, but apparently no problem there either. We then went up to go thru TSA. I had to be padded down because I didn’t think I had to remove any non-metal items, but the rule was to remove everything. Oh well. I had it easy compared to Manoli, because her bar of laundry soap keyed off the scanner and she had to have everything taken out of her backpack. We found our gate, ... read more

Sunday: Great Smokey Mountain National Park day 1. Drove through the park on the main road from east to west, stopping at all the scenic overlooks. The weather was overcast, about 55* but really humid. I'm so not accustomed to hiking in humidity. I hiked up to the Chimney tops you can see in the photo which was incredibly steep and the last half mile was over 400 steps. Phew! Smoky mountains averages 60 inches of rain a year which makes everything so green and water flows year round with so many waterfalls everywhere. By about 4pm the temperature started to radically drop and it started to rain (and later snow). Monday: Smoky Mountain National Park day 2. Driving back to the park this morning was like a winter wonderland where so many hills and mountains ... read more

Sunday: Theresa was still in town we drove around town and checked out some local spots- downtown Greer with a Posada market. Then we looked at some real estate- a historic fabric mill turned into apartments and a tiny home community. As much as I've been interested in tiny homes and I've seen a few empty homes at shows I'd never seen a community of them and it was sooo cute! Tuesday: Saw a Cirque du Soleil show called "Holidaze". It was cute and there were a few impressive acts but there were honestly at least a dozen bad mess ups like falling or dropping things which made it not so great overall. Thursday: Went back to Gather GVL- the restaurants in converted containers. Nice guitar duo singing christmas music. Friday: A nice morning walk around ... read more

We'd already pretty much packed up the night before, so with our 5:30am alarms, we were downstairs waiting for our ride by 5:45am. Finally, at almost 6:10, our ride showed up. The nice gentleman apologized for running late and took to Boise International Airport, dropping us off out front. We checked in, got our tickets and were boarding pretty much on time. I make this statement because almost nothing was on time or easy after that! We arrived at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport around 11am Central time. Since our connecting flight was not until after 7pm that night and wouldn't show up on the boards for a while, we settled down near the gate we'd arrived at, after a long walk around Terminal C. Manoli got out her book and I hooked up my PC and settled ... read more