April 2012

When we got up and had a hearty breakfast this morning, if you had told me we were going to end up spending the afternoon at the home of the most entertaining gazillionaire I have ever met, I would NOT have believed it. But first let me catch you up on Georgetown. Here are some […]

Another whirlwind day of touring and exploring. We head off to Pawley’s Island, because remember we have the Todd’s vehicle here and are not limited in scope of travel. After a brief tour of the island itself we go to find the shopping area because we quickly discover that Pawley’s Island is strictly residential and

We pulled out from the Megadock in Charleston on a slack tide at 0730. Jan at the wheel with able assistant Gabriela(this is the corrected spelling) and William and I were on deck. I quickly loosed all lines and leaped aboard as William used a boat pole to push the back off the dock. Jan

…or at least it seemed that way and when you read how much we packed into it, you will think the same thing. It all started at 3am this morning when we were sound asleep. And it started in Conyers, GA where Young William and lovely bride Gabriella were preparing to leave for Charleston. Meanwhile

This was mostly a normal uneventful day if you don’t count the near street fight I almost had on Wentworth Street. More on this later but let’s go through the day by the numbers. A big sailboat race is coming to Charleston. I believe it is the Atlantic Cup but not certain. All I know

This morning was grocery day. The marina provides a shuttle every hour that will take you downtown so we jumped on the 10 am to ride to Harris Teeter for supplies. We used to have one or two in our county but Publix ran them out I think. Anyway they are a nice upscale store

It was appropriate that we decided to tour Ft. Sumter on a Sunday. It represents our greatest test as a nation and demonstrates that in those days even the wounds of a war among citizens of the same country could be bound up and we could continue as one nation under God.      

Charlie and Anne left around noon yesterday and within 30 minutes Cousin Henry picked us up at the curb downtown. This morning Henry left around 1030 and precisely at noon Jan’s brother Tim and wife Kathie arrived. We are getting pretty good at scheduling these shift changes. Why… we could probably live multiple lives and

For the six months we have been on this journey, with the exception of a day trip from Destin to Panama City with guests aboard, we have had no other people to come and see us. Now in the course of two weeks we have had so many crew members to sign aboard that we

Thank you all for your patience during the two days of technical trouble. One of our readers actually runs Talkspotblogs.com and wrote to offer a tech guy to help us but I do not think it was a problem with the site. I think it was the Internet connection in Beaufort. At any rate I