The trolley tour we took when we first got to Savannah worked out so well that we decided to do something similar here in Charleston. We signed up for a 90 minute tour on a small bus and saw a lot of Charleston and learned new things about the city's history.
One part of our tour took us by the beautiful campus of the College of Charleston. The girl-boy ratio there is 6-1. Did my high school guidance counselor tell me about this place? Noooo! Not to mention that the coeds aren't bundled up in winter clothes for 75% of the school year. But it was the destiny of this farm boy to meet a painted woman from the big city and live happily ever after.
Our bus driver also took us right through the campus of The Citadel. The cadets were going to class in their neatly pressed uniforms. It was an impressive sight. We were told that, upon graduation, a cadet can join any branch of the service as an officer, but they are not required to do so. About 30% of the graduates choose to join the military. Later, when we got back downtown, we saw cadets again. They were doing running along the sidewalks, all dressed the same, in what I would call "old school" gym
clothes. Matching blue tee shirts and shorts with white belts on the shorts. Our bus driver told us that the courtyard pattern shown in the picture was done to make sure that all graduates were NASCAR fans.As we often do, we got hungry. (It was 3:00, a long time from breakfast) We found a Mexican restaurant with the unlikely name of Juanita Greenberg's. The food was great and we indulged ourselves with dessert from a gourmet cupcake store that was just down the street. Dinner tonight will be popcorn and water. Then we headed home to Wickett, who had spent the afternoon in the air conditioned comfort of the motorhome. Poor dog.
The plan for tomorrow is to visit Magnolia Plantation, which is about 10 miles from us. Pictures will follow.
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