Charleston

Charleston City Marina

With our bimini top tied, taped, and clamped, we proceeded on to Charleston.  As we rounded the last curve and came in sight of Charleston, I was reminded of the big marinas of South Florida.  As far as the eye could see there were boats tied to docks or resting at anchor!  No wonder they call it the home of the Mega Dock!  If we did not have bikes, we probably would have never left our boat since it was a half hour walk just to get to land!

Beginning the long ride to the boat

The first thing I had to do after tying up, was work.  Several emergencies had arisen while we were underway that had to be taken care of today.  We ended up and had to ride our bikes over two miles away to get to a Fedex mail store.  By the time we got done with my emergencies, it was dinner time, so we grabbed a bite to eat and returned to the boat, exhausted.

King Street District

The next day, we went back into town, a little more refreshed.  This time as a tourist.  We rode our bikes to the King Street Shopping District and parked them.  Then we walked down one side of the street and up the other until we returned to our bikes.  All in all we spent several hours poking our heads in numerous shops to see what we could spend our money on.

Nice paint job!

We found a great little vegan cafe (we are not vegan but usually vegan restaurants serve the food we eat).  We had lunch there, including a chocolate mousse made from avacados! (you can't taste the avacado but it makes it creamy)  It is usually hard to find healthy deserts so this was a real treat!

One of the many public bike racks

We found it interesting that Charleston has the highest bike usage that we have seen, yet for the most part, it was not very bike friendly.  The sidewalks were broken from tree roots and the ramps going from the sidewalk to the street may as well have been curbs!  So we, like everyone else we saw, just rode in the street.  At times this was a little scary because the cars seemed to mostly ignore our existence!

Charleston sunset

We didn't have time to visit any of the museums, but we will be back on our return trip south and plan on taking some in at that time.

Charleston has so much to do that we are talking about making it a destination (rather than a pit stop) in the future!