Day 16 - 20, November 23-27, 2009 (Revised)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone following along. We are still in Charleston at the City Marina. The weather here has been lousy. A low pressure system has been riding up from FL along a stationary front. I sound like a TV weather guesser, huh! Bottom line is its been gray, cool, and rainy. It’s supposed to clear with some sun today, hooray!


We’ve been “chillin”, literally. In addition we’ve been entertained by TV, the internet and checking out the mega yachts here. While walking the docks, we found a couple we met during our stay at Dowry Creek. They are from Maryland but are wintering over here at the City Dock. We met and chatted with them a couple of times. Donna took a trip into downtown for some art supplies and a few groceries. It’s good she did as the marina is closed today.

It’s about 0830 and I do see a little sun trying to peek through. Today’s plan is to do a walkabout, have our T-day dinner aboard and do final prep for departure tomorrow. Oops. Time for the walkabout. More to follow.

The walkabout was great. It was bright and sunny for a change. The walk took us out of the marina, around the surrounding neighborhood, and to a convenience store. We bought a newspaper to look at the Black Friday ads. I’m not sure why we wanted to see the ads as we’ll be headed south tomorrow. Then we headed back to the boat and our big dinner. More to follow later.

Oh my, its 1700 and we’re trying not to fall asleep. We watched a little of the Lions/Green Bay game and then had our T-day dinner. It was quite a spread, turkey medallions and gravy, dressing, mashed sweet potatoes, rice with broccoli and cheese, collard greens, deviled eggs, and Jell-O salad. Later we are going to have pumpkin pie and coffee for desert. It’s like most Thanksgivings except we don’t have families for company.

On Friday we just took it easy in the morning.  We had planned to leave, but decided to join the crazies and visit the shopping district.  We walked to downtown around 1400 and found the sidewalks full of shoppers and tourists. We walked King and Meeting Streets stopping in a few shops. Around 1630 we took a break and enjoyed a couple of brews.  We decided to call the marina for a van pickup only to discover both of us had left our phones in the boat.  The waitress loaned us her cell and we called for a ride back. Once back we both took naps and then watched a little late TV.
The plan tomorrow, Saturday, is to time our departure for the ride through Elliott’s Cut, enter the Stono River and continue southward. With luck we should be out of SC and into GA in a couple of days. Stay tuned as more is to come.