In the depths of the Arctic winter last January we were contemplating what summer 2015 would bring. Not being able to leave Cambridge Bay until around the first week of August and needing to be in Alaska the earlier in September the better, meant that our 2015 sailing season would be a very short five to eight weeks. Most of those weeks would be spent in cold weather. We decided we needed to purchase a week of summer if we were going to get any this year and booked a trip to Charleston, SC, a destination we'd long wanted to visit.
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| A Charleston street view |
So, we flew off from Toronto for a much-anticipated visit. Flying, as in sailing, also has its weather problems. We only had six nights booked in Charleston. The first two nights were unfortunately spent not in Charleston, but in lovely Newark NJ, at the airport, due to rains, flooding and storms. I'll spare you all the gory details, but, it wasn't a good start. It wasn't helped by an errant airport escalator that grabbed my pant leg and wouldn't let go. I landed on my face and laid there as the escalator continued to undress me. Luckily, they were stretch pants and G. was able to disengage the now very elongated, and half-off leg with a strong yank. I wasn't hurt, except for escalator tracks on my leg and the shock of the fall, but, it was 2 a.m. and we'd been shuttling back and forth on the airport tram for two hours trying to rebook flights and get a hotel for the night etc. It wasn't funny at the time, but, good for a laugh now!
We did get to Charleston eventually and although it was a short visit we did enjoy it. The heat took a bit of getting used to.
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| Flowers at Magnolia Plantation. |
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| Tomb at Magnolia Plantation |
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| Nathaniel Russel House, Charleston |
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