Post-marathon Sunday – up early, ready to go-go-go.  South Carolina.  Weather app forecast’d a three-hour calm; Winter Storm Diego bearing on the Carolinas.  1pm flight HOME – plenty of time for a museum, President’s home, y’all know…something anything historical.  Gotta/hafta/must 🙂

Breakfast highlight: Fried Green Tomato Eggs Benedict (highly recommended), then 2 hours at Charles Towne Landing.  Check, done.  Fulfilled my inner History Nerd.  English’s first permanent settlement here – 1670, on the ship ‘Carolina’.  Tell ya folks, it’s an addiction.  LOL>

Glass-walled windows, stunning outdoor panorama.  HUGE renovated Visitors Center.  Unfortunately, wrong politics.  12 minutes enough.  Moved my energy outside.  Exploitation, sugar cane, cotton, slavery.  Got it.  Park Ranger said ‘no charge’ (many thanks).  Outdoors, much better fit.

Hundred-year live oaks draped in Spanish moss.  Egrets/sand cranes stalked the property’s lowlands gigging for frogs/insects/crawfish/minnows.  Roads in & outta the Park canopied by tall deciduous, still leafy green in December.  Light drizzle, big BEAUTIFUL outdoors all to myself.  Heart soar.

America the Beautiful.  Differences aside, I’m better having visited all 50 States.

Hilo Hawaii, Washington DC, Buffalo NY, Ennis Montana, Juneau Alaska.  New places, new faces.  Super BLESSED – absolutely amazing run year.  So many LIFE adventures.  #noregrets