Drayton Hall
Drayton Hall is a Palladian mansion situated along the Ashley River outside of Charleston, South Carolina. It is the only plantation home along the river to survive the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. It is suspected …
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Fort Sumter National Historic Park
I’m not gonna lie, I’m a bit over historic forts. They all seem to be a pile of stone near water with some cannons in them, and not much else. One is the same as …
The H. L. Hunley Submarine
I nearly told Doug to just visit the H.L. Hunley on his own, as I couldn’t have had much less interest at looking inside another submarine. I was glad I didn’t do that, as you …
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A Few Days in Savannah, Georgia
The Wormsloe Historic Site sits on the outer edges of Savannah. It was once the Wormsloe Plantation, the estate of one of Georgia’s founders, Noble Jones (c. 1700-1775). Though the site indicates there are the ruins …
The Historic Bonaventure Cemetery
Bonaventure Cemetery is a 160-acre rural cemetery just outside of Savannah in Thunderbolt, Georgia. It is located on the site of the former Bonaventure Plantation. The first plantation home burned to the ground in the …
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace
Unless you were a Girl Scout, you may not know Juliette Gordon Low, but we learned she was a very interesting women. We visited the home of her early life, the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace …
Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
I was a bit underwhelmed by the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters in historic Savannah, Georgia, especially in comparison to some of the more elegant homes in the area. The home, finished in 1819, is …
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation
When I think of southern plantations, the crops that comes to mind are always cotton and tobacco. But, we learned, rice was another big crop that was labor intensive (and therefore ripe for the use …
American Prohibition Museum
There are museums around the world devoted to all kinds of unusual topics, and you can count on us visiting them whenever they pop up near our itinerary. And so when we learned about a …
Select Scenes in and around Orlando, Florida
Doug will probably disagree, but I found the Florida Citrus Tower in Clermont to be completely underwhelming. It was $11 per person to ride up to the top and look out where Citrus trees used …