Traveling with the Grobmyers Day5 July 4,2025

 Happy 4th of July. Today was a driving day. We drove up the South Carolina coast into North Carolina. We drove through some familiar sounding towns from some of my summer beach reads. Towns like Sullivan’s Island, Isle of Palms, Pawley’s Island, and Folly Beach. These were pretty little towns with lots of flags and red, white, and blue decorated golf carts.

Our first stop was Myrtle Beach. I had heard it was a lot like Gatlinburg but on a beach. They weren’t wrong. There’s plenty of putt putt golf, air brush tee shirts and pancake houses. The beach was full and plenty of others headed that way. 

I did find a Christmas shop. It was a good one too. Lots of trees and ornaments. I might have found a few ornaments for my trees.

We are representing here!!

I like the advice from a snowman.

So if you are keeping count that is Christmas shops 3 quilt shops1. I know later on in the trip the quilt shops will more than make up the difference.

A few pictures of the beach from a distance. It’s a pretty light green color. We think we would like to come back sometime in the winter when it isn’t so hot or crowded.

Hope you are enjoying your holiday. After our drive today we grabbed some sandwiches and are having a picnic in the room to watch the fireworks on TV.

Traveling with the Grobmyers Day 4 July 3, 2025

 Today was our historic walking tour of Charleston, South of Broad.  To say it was hot is an understatement. Of course it’s not the heat it’s the humidity. You could cut the air with a knife. The tour was with Bulldog Tours and if you are in the area schedule one of the many tours with them. Charleston is a very old city parts date back to the late 1600’s. It was very involved in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Oh and they love George Washington. They have markers at all the places he visited and stayed. Lincoln never visited the city. He was scheduled to come but Mary Todd was not feeling well so he stayed home and went to Ford Theater instead. And as they say the rest is history. Charlestonians like to say had he visited he would have lived to finish his presidency.

 

This is St Michael’s church.  It is very old and still holds services today. It is used for a lot of weddings. Beautiful stained glass windows.

This is the VIP pew. Notice the comfy seats. VIPs that have sat here range from Washington to Princess Charles. Our tour guide said the locals don’t sit there so if you are in town for Sunday come and sit in the seat and watch the reaction.

Home of the 1st governor who was married to Aaron Burr’s daughter.

Beautiful homes and businesses.

These home are along the wall that was built in the harbor to help protect it. 

Rainbow Row. Very popular tourist attraction. They were going to tear down this row of houses because they were in bad shape, but a group of women said no you are not. The group gave the women some time and they came up with a plan to revitalize them. Each woman picked a color to paint one of the houses. This is what resulted.

Our tour ended here at the Blind Tiger restaurant. Our tour guide and my friend both recommended it.we mainly wanted a cool place and something cold to drink.

After lunch and heading back to our car I found my Christmas shop for the day.

We had a late afternoon tour of Fort Sumter scheduled, but it was thundering so we didn’t think it would be a good idea to be on the water going over. We did go to the visitors center.

We did find the pineapple fountain along the waterfront. 

We drove out to try and see the grove of live oaks at a plantation to get some pictures but you had to do a tour to see that so we didn’t stay.we drove out to Sullivan’s Island because Joe found a place for dinner, The Obstinate Daughter. I don’t know why that jumped out at him.

Tomorrow we will leave the area and head up the coast. I’m sure we will find some 4th of July fireworks somewhere along the way. We will be coming back here again one day. It’s a very nice city that is full of American history.