May 6th - Friday - 58 degrees burrrr - Sunny - blue sky
Lou and I awoke cold this morning, imagine our surprise when we looked at the thermometer and found that it was no longer in the 90's as we were accustomed to. We both decided we needed long pants to do our sight seeing.
We left our RV camping site and drove the eight miles into downtown Charleston and purchased tickets for a horse drawn carriage tour of the city. This was very enjoyable, and we were both impressed with the treatment of the horses, the horses are only allowed to do two tours a day and then taken back to wonderful stables where they are feed and watered and given fresh straw to rest upon. They are shod with iron shoes that are attached to rubber shoes to wear on the pavement to cushion their steps. They work for two weeks and then are taken back to pasture for a month before they are returned to the city. Impressive.
I am posting pictures that I took on our tour and our walk back to the welcome center. We were going to tour a plantation ; however, we ran out of time, so saved that for the next day. We had a wonderful seafood dinner in town before we came back to the RV at 8:00 that evening, tired, but very satisfied with our day of walking and sight seeing.
Charleston is known for its narrow streets and splendid architecture. Embellished with fanciful wrought-iron details as intricate as window frost and painted sparkling white, pastels or whimsical rainbow hues, which reminded me of the houses we saw in Key West last winter. The city is 300 years old.
The city is rich in history and we would have loved to had time to spent time in the museum, maybe next time. Of course, the city was names for King Charles II and was founded in 1670 by the English. Those of us that love the Civil War History remember that the first cannon was shot at Fort Sumter and we didn't have time to get out there either, so you can see there is so much more to see. Also, I would have liked to have seen how tea is harvested and processed.
All in all it was a lovely day.
The next post will be on our trip to the plantation.
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