Charleston, SC

Left Hilton Head and my brother and his wife on Monday morn...waved as we passed by their hotel...had said our goodbyes after dinner the night before!!  Sad as we don't see them very often...
Fortunately after they dropped us off on Sun eve we decided to put the awning up, chairs and table away etc because just as we finished a storm came up with wind, lightening and thunder...it was like a fireworks display!!  Very warm and humid but a heavy rain!

Arrived in Charleston after only a couple of hours and set up the campsite in a great county park within 15 min of downtown..price was similar to any RV park but the campsites are huge and the park has a climbing wall, a huge splash pool, dancing water fountains for the little ones and best of all for Molly (our dog) a huge 2+ acre dog park with beach access to a lake.  Had lunch and decided we could make it into town for a Grayline tour....Charleston like Savannah is a beautiful town filled with historical beautiful homes but bigger and on a peninsula with great downtown parks on the water and marinas.

On Tuesday we went back into town to tour on foot by ourselves...very easy town to navigate...and Art took a lot of pictures. Rained intermittently but we didn't melt!!   Later on, checking his camera he realized the settings had been wrong so went back to retake them this AM.   Tues afternoon Molly got to go to the dog park...she had a ball...goes into the water midknee but if she steps into a spot one inch deeper she scares herself!!  Funny to watch...and there are dogs there all the time because it is a county park and people buy a year pass for $15 I think.

After retaking some pictures of this beautiful city this AM we toured the Charleston Museum...looked pretty small as we entered but that was deceiving..it was large and had a great variety of displays!!  This afternoon we are catching up on laundry chores etc because tomorrow we leave and will be going to a forestry campground in North Carolina and need to get in before the big holiday weekend!!  This is a 1st come campground so hopefully we get a site...as all other RV parks are booked up for the most part. And we will be roughing it...no wifi or cable tv etc....just electricity.

Forgot to tell you that in Savannah I tried shrimp and grits which is on every Southern menu...I had been warned as most people not from the South don't seem to like them but I thought they were good with the shrimp sauce that was on the grits and the grits were smoother (not gritty) than I had been told..sort of like mashed potatoes which are only good because of the butter or gravy that you put on them!!   Then yesterday I  had fried green tomatoes which Art shared with me as it was like a side that I ordered...we both thought they were great....isn't anything that is fried???  Anyway I plan to try anything new to me at least once...will let you know if I get food poisoning!!

On Monday we will drive in to Williamsburg, VA where we have made reservations due to the popularity of the area...we will be visiting Arts brother-in-laws sister and her husband who are lucky enough to live there!!!