Congaree National Park sits just outside of Columbia, South Carolina, so we decided to stop on our way back home from Blacksburg. Congaree National Park features over 20,000 acres of old-growth, bottomland hardwood forest. It was created to protect the forest from logging and to preserve an area of what America once looked like. If…
South Carolina
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Charleston, day 2
Because of that whole Tropical Storm Andrea nonsense, we stayed in a bit later on Friday morning and waited for the last of the rain to pass. We started at the Charleston Visitor Center and discovered that Charleston offers free trolley transportation to the major tourist areas. So we headed to the Charleston Museum (which…
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Traveling to Charleston
We decided to head out early to Charleston. Our first stop was the South Carolina aquarium. It’s decent but not very large (and not too crowded). We then walked over the Fort Sumter museum on the mainland. Fort Sumter is an island out in the harbor, so you have to take a ferry out there….