Train, Train

We’ve been in our house for 6 1/2 years and have been feeling this itch to leave for something newer, bigger and better for about 6 of those. Circumstances – also known as bad decisions graciously permitted by Providence – have disallowed a move and I now have a very disconcerting notion to stay longer than we must. I want to make our house OUR home, to sow at least a small seed of who we are into it. Part of that is my desire to be different than i’ve ever been and actually complete something. Part of it is to, in the process, figure out what that seed might look like once cultivated. 

We Love Charleston, SC

My wife and I love Charleston, SC for multiple reasons. We love the fact that we began dating there, were engaged there, lived there our first year and a half of marriage, and had our first child there. But we also love it because of the water and because of the history of the place. I took this picture while we were on a water taxi taking us from the Charleston Harbor near the SC Aquarium to Patriot’s Point where the USS Yorktown (a retired aircraft carrier) is docked. We then took a small cruise ship around the Harbor and learned about the various Civil War area military forts: Moultrie, Johnson and Sumter, the latter of which absorbed the cannon shot which effectively began the War Between the States. Before this, we were privileged to visit the house of a prominent early 19^th century merchant, Nathaniel Russell, whose family lived at 51 Meeting Street. Surrounding all of this, we stayed in the Andrew Pinckney Inn (don’t really know who he is), which is one block from the Historic Market Street. And the great thing is, there is so much more for us to see the next time we go. We’re hoping we can talk some of our friends into going with us. We can take a stroll down King Street, eat at 82 Queen, walk through the graveyard where John C. Calhoun is buried and take a horse drawn carriage tour around the historic city. I can’t wait until the kids are old enough to really get what a great place this is!