Monday, April 12, 2021.
Weather: Temp: 85/61, Humidity: 93/22%, Top Wind: W13 mph, Precip: none, Miles Traveled:over 20,000 steps 😳👣🚶🏼
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My phone health app says I walked 8.5 miles. What?! How can that be? But both of our phones show over 20,000 steps and over 8 miles! 😳 On average a normal stride step is 2.2 feet. Mathematically, it works out: 20,000 steps x 2.2=44,000 feet / 5280 feet per mile = 8.3 miles. Wowza- PLEEEZE don’t tell Kenny he walked that far!!
We decided to stroll around Charleston today, and we’ll do boat chores tomorrow. It was a beautiful day! Our first destination was someplace for lunch, and possibly some beer tasting. So off towards town we went. We strolled by some very interesting homes and buildings. This one just amazed me with the amount of wires just hanging out along the sidewalk.
Take a close look behind the pink door. 🤷♀️. We couldn’t really figure out it’s purpose! But then we saw several other homes with the same design, but there was actually a porch with railings behind the door, so the door was necessary to get onto the porch to get to the actual front door of the building.
We made it to King Street and to Charleston Beer Works. Wouldn’t you know it…. we’ve been here before! We didn’t realize it until we saw the place, and it was familiar. Oh well!
Last time we were here we sat inside. Today was beautiful, so we sat outside at the bar and had lunch and Kenny tried a couple of local Charleston beers. This place has something like 48 beers on tap. 🍺
This sign caught me eye and I thought they made it up.
So I looked it up, and here is what I found! Of course this is from the “Urban Dictionary”, which has all kinds of things that I shouldn’t need to know. 🤭
After lunch, we strolled down King Street and past this big St Matthews German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Founded in 1840. It was big and pretty.
We took a left somewhere along the way and found the City Market. The public market building was erected between 1788 and 1804. I don’t know if this is still the original building, but there was an active market inside that we walked through.
There were all kinds of vendors.
We’ve been looking at recipes for making a low country boil, so I checked these seasonings out. I’m not sure I could do a cajun boil…. spicey!!
We made it over to the eastern shore of Charleston which is on the Cooper River. Charleston is actually a peninsula surrounded by two rivers. We found ourselves at a place we’ve been to several times: Fleet Landing. The whole parking lot has been taken out, and a new big fancy hotel is being built here. We asked the bartender about it, and he said that the new hotel actually owns the Fleet Landing now, and they are going to keep it. YAY! We ordered a couple of drinks and enjoyed a cool breeze. They actually make a pretty yummy Painkiller!
I took a minute to look at the current weather conditions. No wonder it feels so awesome! How common is it to have 24% humidity in the south?!?!
Here’s our selfie for today.
From here, we decided to walk north a bit to a nearby marina because there are three Looper boats showing on Nebo that should be there. Along the way was this big fenced in area, and the facade of an old, old building. Too bad my camera really wanted to focus on the fence, not the building!
We made it to the Maritime Marina, and there were Loopers there! We met the crews of Inked Mermaid, Curt’s Dream, and PartnerShip. Another boat, Hallelujah, was there, but the crew wasn’t. We all exchanged ‘boat cards’ (like business cards), and part of the gang left to meet their local friends for drinks. We visited with Curt for awhile and he gave us a tour of his boat. He built is 30’ tug style boat completely on his own! WOW! He and his wife were so sweet, and we were just in awe of his craftsmanship! While visiting, I got a text from Christie from Inked Mermaid inviting us to join them having cocktails at a rooftop bar nearby with PartnerShip and another couple of friends that live here. We said sure! So we walked back south to just about where we were at Fleet Landing, and found our way up to the Pavillion bar over Grille 225. What a beautiful place!
Here is the view over the Cooper River. Way across the river is the Patriot’s Point Naval & Maritime Museum, including the USS Yorktown CV-10 Aircraft Carrier. We have never been over there, but have heard it’s very interesting. Here in the foreground is the United States Customs House built in 1852. it is pretty majestic!
Here is more of the rooftop! What a beautiful place, but who even knew it was here? The locals. 😉
The next bar hop was to The Rooftop Bar at the Vendue. Again…. who knew but the locals?!
There are two rooftops here – we went all the way to the top where there was a little more breeze.
Here is part of the view. Looking around at other buildings, I could see even more rooftop establishments! There is a whole ‘nother world on the rooftops of Charleston!!
Looking around there were various church steeples rising up and decorating the Charleston landscape.
The sunset behind another steeple was just magnificent!
The rest of the gang was going to hit another bar somewhere. We still needed to walk a couple of miles back to the boat, so we said our good-byes for now. I hope we meet again up the waterways somewhere, because they were a fun bunch! We walked along Queen Street for awhile, and saw some really pretty alleyways. These kind of places are EVERYWHERE in Charleston, I just love them. And they are sooooo pretty at dusk when the lights just start to come on! The ‘light’s at the doorway are actually flames, which are quite common around town. There are a lot of gas-lit lamps.
This was just kind of funny – it looked like the end of a cannon just sticking up out of the sidewalk.
This might have been the church that was in the sunset, but I have no idea. There are SO many churches in Charleston, it is actually nicknamed the Holy City. It got this name because immigrants from England, Scotland, France, Germany, Ireland and other countries brought numerous Protestant denominations as well as Judaism and Roman Catholicism. The city is/was well known for its tolerance for all religions and its numerous historic churches.
This was random. 🤷♀️
This restaurant was just gorgeous at dusk.
So here is our crazy walking route today! We didn’t set out to wear holes in our shoes, but wowza, we sure were pooped when we got home! It was a fun day, and we’re both really glad that we got to meet and visit with some other Loopers today. We haven’t met many yet!
Tomorrow will be a boat chore kind of day. It’s kind of nice to be in one spot for three nights so that we can play AND do chores without doing one at the expense of anther.