Day 16 Charleston

October 17, 2019

Weather was beautiful here today. We went to downtown Charleston to do some sightseeing. We parked on the 4th floor of the parking garage at the downtown Visitors center.

The antenna hit the floor framing above us but we didn't scrape the roof of the truck. We had to go up to an area where there were few cars because there was no way I could get into a space between 2 cars. 

Then it was on to the line at the Visitors Center. I had purchased tickets for the Fort Sumter ferry online but wanted to check out available attractions and services. One nice thing is that there are free busses that run 3 loops around the city. They all start at the Visitors Center but cross one anothers path at other places. There are stops approximately every 4 blocks so you can get off, check something out, maybe walk a few more blocks, and then get back on.

The Charleston harbor.

Fort Sumter is a little island just left of center in the photo below.

The park along the coast is nice. This is a wading fountain. There are steps to walk down into the knee deep, clean, water. A sign limits occupancy to a maximum of 24 and notes that all children must be supervised.

Kathy stayed out by the water and I walked around looking at buildings.

I took the photo below to show the street sign. The door is the door in the building above.

 

 The house in the photo below looked quite out of place. The original section was built in 1852.

The Charleston "Market", an expensive flea market. It is blocks long. You cross the street and enter it, walk the block, walk out, cross a street, walk into another section and keep going. It didn't take us long to walk thru it. The only thing I saw that interested me were some timber roof trusses. I didn't notice Kathy stopping to seriously check anything out.

Then it was on to important stuff, LUNCH. We saw Sticky Fingers as we were walking to the next bus stop. The good was great and the background music, mostly blues, was good. And the food was very reasonably priced. My pulled pork, with beans and cole slaw, was only $10. Very cheap in a touristy area.

Try as we might, we just couldn't finish it.

We walked enough that we were pooped by the time we left Charleston. I will post some additional information about our ferry trip to Fort Sumter tomorrow.

God is good. May He bless you and yours.