South Carolina Coast

Two Short Stops

After one last stop in North Carolina, enroute to Myrtle Beach:

Visit to 1 new National Park Site:

Moores Creek National Battlefield (#224), where, on February 27, 1776, Loyalist forces charged across Moores Creek Bridge and met nearly 1,000 North Carolina Patriots with cannons and muskets. This battle marked the last broadsword charge by Scottish Highlanders and the first significant victory for the Patriots in the American Revolution. (Is this where the saying “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight” came from???)

Reflections in the Black Water of Moores Creek on the Historic Walk
Reflections in the Black Water of Moores Creek on the Historic Walk

We had 3 nights in Myrtle Beach, where we enjoyed time visiting friends in the area:

Shelley, friend of Gail’s since 4th grade, whom she hasn’t seen in 11 years, and her husband Jeff
Jeff-C, another RPI ’71 classmate & RSE fraternity friend of Mark’s, and his wife Maureen.

We each had some personal time with our respective friends, we had a dinner with each couple, our only touring around Myrtle Beach was with them, and they all came to our campsite to meet Lizzy! Two days filled with visiting with old friends. Very Nice.

Then Charleston for 3 nights, where we prepared Lizzy for storage, packed our bags to fly home for a month, and dealt with a refrigerator which stopped working 2 days ago. Looks like it won’t get fixed until we return. Thank goodness we had eaten down all the fresh food and frozen meat for storage anyway.

Can’t say we actually visited the South Carolina Coast much!

And now…going on Pause!

Heading out to store Lizzy now, then off to the Charleston, SC Airport, to catch our non-stop Alaska flight to Seattle. (That’s why we picked Charleston, from which to fly home.) We’ll be home for a month. Then we’ll be back here, on the road, December 11, continuing our journey south for the winter. Until then…