Dickie_Gr

Here's an example.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mle8GgOmJ7U

Beautiful, HARMLESS things.

We left the centre and had lunch at the SeeWee restaurant which is far too old school to have anything advanced like a website.

https://www.facebook.com/seeweerestaurant

Just like walking back in time to the 50s. Incredible food and service but very reasonable. If your passing on the way to Charleston don't miss it.

We went on in the rain to Sullivans Island, we love it here. It is everything Kiawah isn't. It's old school, old fashioned, up market, stylish and real. At Kiawah you expect Rihanna to jump out of the bushes, on Sullivans you more likely to see Martha Stewart taking the dog for a walk.

It was still only 46oF and pouring down but we sat on the beach anyway just in a protest against the weather. Scots do nutty things like that.

We went on the the Old Post Office which was our bed for the last night.

http://www.mavericksouthernkitchens....lageposthouse/

The Maverickmlocal chain own Charleston Cooks! The trendy kitchen shop in town, the very established SNOB restaurant and High Cotton in Charleston. Evening dinner was Flounder for me, Frogmore Mussels for her and a very odd kids meal for him. Food was very good. Breakfast was a very odd looking spiced bread, bacon and stewed apple : it was wonderful.

We left for the airport after one last drive around the posh houses of Charelston, maybe one day they will give us a Green Card!

All in all, the trip of a lifetime.

Beauty in small things.

SC doesn't have the Grand Cannon. It has natural beauty, beauty in its food and beauty in the warmth of the people.

All on a small scale.

You don't tick SC off, just enjoy being there.

JoJoSiestaKey

Thanks Dicki! You've really made me homesick!

Edisto's average daily high in late October is around the low 80s anyway so that wasn't too bad. I remember Christmas days the temps hitting 80.

Sullivan's Island is one of my favorite places in the world. Close proximity to downtown, fantastic restaurants (I miss Poes Tavern!!), historic (Fort Moultrie), and the best beaches on the East Coast of the US. Celebs live there too (Bill Murray is probably the most famous).

The beauty of the Low Country is hard to describe but I think the opening preface of The Prince of Tides does a pretty good job of describing it.

Thank you for taking me home!

smetz1

Dickie, sounds like you had a wonderful time and I enjoyed reading your TR.

Prince of Tides is one of my favorite books, and Pat Conroy has long been one of my favorite authors. His stories are terribly disturbing and wonderful at the same time, which seems to be a reflection of his life and the reason for many of the trouble's he's experienced.

Beach Music and The Water is Wide are both wonderful too, the latter is non-fiction unlike many of his other books, though I believe they are all vaguely autobiographical. But I first got hooked on him by reading The Great Santini, and I'd recommend that to you very highly, as well as Lords of Discipline.

I think it was Centralparkgirl above who didn't like the Prince of Tides movie - I see her point, since the movie only dealt with a small slice of the book (his time in NYC). The best movie of a Pat Conroy book was The Great Santini - a terrific performance by Robert Duvall.