What we did on our Thanksgiving Break, part 5

By now you're thinking, wow, Izzy & Lizzie were sure busy! Could they have possibly done anything else fun, interesting or different?

Yes, it turns out they could. Izzy, who knows I love history and patriotic stuff and ceremony and Italian food, had planned a great day.

We left Varnville midafternoon and rode through the Savannah River Site (warning, DO NOT stop your vehicle!--per the umpteen signs) towards Augusta. Izzy had been on a ride recently that stopped at the Redcliffe Plantation state historic site (home of SC Governor James Hammond) and saw that there would be candlelight tours this weekend. We toured the house and some of the grounds of this showplace, built in 1859, at what the owner could not have imagined would be the end of his era.

After the plantation, the tour continued over in Augusta. There were three more homes; we had time for two.

We visited the boyhood home of Thomas "Tommy" Woodrow Wilson (the one before his family moved to Columbia, SC.)

Afterwards, we headed over to Meadow Garden, the home of George Walton, youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence. This was interesting in that there was one home with a second, larger one built onto the right side.

By sheer luck, since the tour involved two states and driving between various sites, we wound up touring all three places with the same couple from Monroe, GA. We knew lots about each other by the end of the tours. We also knew which questions to ask, which may have rattled some of the DAR volunteers.

We headed back to a place Izzy had heard great reviews of -- Luigi's. It's always nice to hear Italian being spoken in an Italian restaurant.

Headed home on the highway--brrrr! According to this handy NWS chart, the air moving past us in excess of 60 MPH would have chilled the 40 degree ambient temperature to a perceived temp of 25 or below. Thanks goodness for layers.

240 miles--not bad for me, a walk in the park for Izzy.