Summer Just me and Hurricane Earl 2 Sep 201021 Jul 2012 SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. – I touched a hurricane today. Hurricane Earl’s deadly riptides have already claimed a surfer somewhere along the East Coast, according to an overheard conversation back in…
Summer Charleston’s Canadian connection 2 Sep 20102 Aug 2012 CHARLESTON, S.C. – Boone Hall Plantation has a Canadian connection. While the plantation was founded in 1681, the building we toured (as we did two years ago) is the fourth…
Summer There’s plenty of parking South of the Border 1 Sep 20102 Sep 2010 But wait, you’re saying: You seem to have some Ocean City anger, but I thought you liked tacky. SOUTH OF THE BORDER, S.C. -- I do like tacky. But I…
Spring break The Gullah-Geechee people of South Carolina 7 Feb 201018 Apr 2017 In March 2008, Melani and I did something we hadn’t done since the summer of 1995: We took a vacation sans child. Charleston, S.C., has everything I look for in…
Spring break Of catfish and veterans 6 Mar 200929 Jul 2012 Today was, unapologetically, Tourist Day. While Melani and Trevor went to the Ripley’s Aquarium, Kendra and I got lost, found our way along (I swear to God) Iron Man Lane, and…
Spring break Gnaw, I think we’ll stay 4 Mar 200911 May 2009 We brought walkie-talkies with us, so when Trevor ran ahead through the swampland toward the beach, I said into my talkie: “Boy, when an alligator starts gnawing its way up…
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