Carolinas & Georgia

With our recent Thanksgiving success and Ian feeling a bit slow, we wound our way back toward the coast. Our plans for Florida were taking shape so we had a few days to get there. Short stop in Charlotte to confirm that it existed, after lots of roads that looked like this:

South Carolina was calling us more, and after some laundry we were able to visit Charleston. This city was amazing, and if we had known we would have spent more than half a day checking it out. The cobblestones and ooooold Victorian houses, with 100-year old sagging porches were very unlike anything we experienced in our midwest and western roots.

The reason we couldn’t hang out another day was that we had a scheduled free stay in a luxury resort (the Montage) thanks to a friend of ours. Ben had tickets that he had to use up by March, and with a newborn he wouldn’t be able to take advantage, so we got a great deal. Not totally free; we had to pay for valet which was well worth the price seeing them drive our creeper van down the entrance strip. The resort was fun and had beautiful grounds, but confirmed that we are not $350/night people.

The next day we visited Savannah, which was another city that we’d have liked to spend more than half a day in! I honestly couldn’t decide which I liked better. Both were full of foreign experiences. Savannah had some of the most beautiful (and loud) street singing I’d heard, and old railroad tracks right down the cobblestone market next to the ocean. Not to mention more gorgeous neighborhoods to check out.