July 10,2011

ON THE ROAD AGAIN, as Willy sang,  We're on the move at last, after docking in Charleston for a month.

We made it to Charleston which turned out to be a great place to dock Miss Ellen.  The Harbor Master from Lake Murry, where we had our old boat, was now the Harbor Master at the Charleston Marina and Resort.  He took good care of us and we plan to dock there for the winter.

We had planned to make it to Myrtle Beach where we were to meet our kids but couldn't make the date, so we stoped in Charleston and rode with our son Eric to Myrtle.

A great week with our family. 

This is Eric (our son) and our daughter- in- law Becky and grandson Jackson.

Our oldest, Kevin and daughter- in- law Vicki along with Grand daughter and our newest addition Grand son Finn.

Sun set in Charleston Harbor.

 Our dockage was located next to the USS YORKTOWN.  A great tour.  We took our grandson Jackson and wore him out running through this ships displays.  We also toured Fort Sumter, and the Children's museum.  This was the best Children's museum and Jackson had a ball.  There were so many activities for the kids they stayed occupied the whole time.  Jackson didn't want to leave. 

We have very few pictures from Charleston as stupid me hit a wrong button on the camera and lost a whole weeks worth of pictures with our grandson.  These pictures were taken after losing the pictures. Here's Cona with the Yorktown in the background.

We stayed a few days longer and Eric and family were able to join us for the 4th of July and the fireworks shot off from the USS YORKTOWN.  This is one of the fireworks.

Leaving Charleston we headed north and stoped at George Town.  This is a great stop filled with history  One of the first settlements in America and was the largest producer of rice in the word at that time.  The area was the richest colony before the civil war.  The plantation owners had so much money they didn' know where to spend it.  The entire state of South Carolina was rice fields.  The owners had homes on the plantation and  in Charleston (where the partied) and traveled to Europe yearly. 

This is a picture of the Marina where we docked.  Close enough to walk to the historic town.

Cona's brother Jim and sister-in-law Jane, joined us for a day.  They were headed south from New York.   This is a picture in front of part of the town. 

We toured a rice plantation.  Here is Jane and Cona in front of the house.

The husband and wife that own the plantation house now live in it but open it to the public.  Adjacent to  the plantation house they built a tea room (pictured here) where we had a wonderful lunch.

Cona and Jane in front of the fire place where the meal were prepared.

Brother Jim in front of the kitchen house.  Of course these buildings were located away from the main house due to the risk of fires.

Picture of the river that ran behind the house.  The rice fields were on the other side of the river.

Plantation house.

After leaving George Town we headed for Myrtle Beach.  Docked at Barefoot Landing.  Cona was very happy, over 142 shops and several restaurants.  Here we are feeding our selves at Joe's Crab Shack and had an old low country boil.  Crabs, Shrimp, potato's, corn, sausage,  MMMMgood.

The dock was right at the Barefoot landing, here Cona stands with her back to the landing.

I love shrimp and here I am expressing my affection.

Cona with one of her friends.

Tomorrow we head for Southport NC.