Charleston's Beautiful Churches

We finally found time to tour Charleston.  We picked a bus tour out of the Charleston Visitor Center.  Turns out we were the only ones on the 22 seat bus.  Bubba -- our tour guide -- gave us a personal tour of Charleston asking us what we were interested in seeing.  Of course, I said I loved the old churches.  Bubba was a history buff and we had a great time listening to all the stories about Charleston.  If you ever come to Charleston, we recommend looking up Bubba!!!!

A Little Trip to Edisto Island

 felt good to take a break.  The manager of the course Lance was photographing let us stay in a condo overnight.  It was a real nice break.  Edisto Island is beautiful...water...marshes...bridges...boats...houses on stilts.  Beautiful.

TROUBLE TROUBLE EVERYWHERE TROUBLE

After over three years of fairly smooth riding in our adventures we hit the month from "hell"!  Yes, it started with getting lost coming in.

Here is the list of some of the things that went wrong:

Refrigerator stopped cooling the DAY BEFORE Thanksgiving.
We learned more about dry ice than we ever wanted to know.

My insulin froze because of our learning curve about dry ice.  Thank God for Walmart pharmacy where I can get refills anywhere!

I was told I needed to have a crown replaced that was put in less than a year ago -- with great frustration and suffering.  UGH!!!

The second printer (replaced a new one that did not work) would not connect to our wireless equipment.

DirecTV box went out.  New one does not work the same as the old one.  The remote has to be aimed right at the box.

Our shower what-you-call-it o-ring failed and leaked water into our furnace and storage area.

It got so cold it froze our water hose -- God we lucked out that nothing broke.

On top of it all because of all the extra calling we went over our cell phone minutes.

Not to mention the fruit fly and stick bug infestation that we had before coming to Charleston.

Or, that we made the decision to come home in June...now I miss everyone so much!!!!

 

Got Lost Coming into Charleston SC

 Yes, GPS and directions from the RV park did not help -- when you ignore them.  Several phone calls later and Lance turning the motorhome towing the car around twice in very small places we MADE it.  Whew!!!

 The signs say, "Not Really Actual Size!!"  Hope not.  I would be very afraid if the fish were that BIG!!!

 This is one bridge we went over in our "lost" hour.

 Along the coast the houses are prepared for anything --- floods, hurricanes.....

Saying Goodbye to Elizabeth City NC

We are saying goodbye to Elizabeth City -- its water everywhere, the beautiful homes and buildings and summer.  We enjoyed ourselves there.



Welcome to our Home

El Patron

Every once and awhile we run across a restaurant that has great food with good prices.  In Elizabeth City the El Patron is one of those restaurants.  They have a dip to go with your chips which has a milk?? base.  It was excellent.