Photo Friday - Southern Gates

Just a quick post for photo Friday - here are a few of the gorgeous Southern Gates that Charleston is so famous for.

Wholly Cow!

Labor Day has come and gone, marking the close to another incredible summer. Jenny planned another fabulous trip to Charleston, SC to end summer with a bang. If you ever happen to be in the area, you MUST take a little detour and go to this wonderful little ice cream shop we went to - Wholly Cow. It's at 159 Church Street (near Cumberland). It was one of the best scoops of ice cream I've ever had - soooo creamy and delicious! We actually had to go back the next day because once just wasn't enough :-) I had the double oreo (cookies and cream),

and Jenny had sea turtle (I think that's what it was called). Her's was adorable! There were little chocolate turtles in it!

A Weekend in Charleston, SC

It's Labor Day weekend once again, and as tradition dictates, I'm visiting Jenny in lovely Charlotte, NC. Jenny always thinks of delightful things for us to do on my trips down to visit, and last year she came up with a doozy. We were going to head to Charleston, SC for the weekend. We went on a cemetery ghost tour, shopped til we dropped in the huge open-air market, and spent a day at Isle of Palms swimming in the ocean and catching some rays. We're headed there again today to fill in the gaps of what we didn't get to do last year. Here's a picture of Me, Kelli (Jenny's fabulous roomie) and Jenny in front of the Pineapple Fountain in Waterfront Park from last year's adventure :-)

Cross-Country Road Trip

Brief post alert!  I'm just browsing on Google Maps right now in preparation for a cross-country trip my sister and I are taking in March.  We are leaving Pittsburgh, PA and our destination is Tacoma, WA.  We want to go to Yellowstone and would love to see Montana, but are there any other awesome destinations on the way that we should prepare to visit?

We'd love to see as much as possible, so please give me any and all ideas you guys may have!!  Thank you!

Bitten by the Travel Bug...

Do you ever get that itch to just go somewhere?  I used to feel like that a lot of the time, before I moved south.  Now that I'm here and I love it, I get bitten by the travel bug a lot less.  But sometimes it still hits me, and this week the itch to go back to California has been hitting me hard.  Just to visit, not to live...I don't need anyone getting upset!  Here's a small snippet as to why I wanna go back...

Cali is a little out of reach for me right now, but that's okay...there are plenty of place that are on my list for this fall/winter that are a bit closer to home.  Stay tuned for travel updates!

Day 2 - Thankful for Travel

I was going through some old pictures, and I couldn't help resisting posting one of my favorites from a trip Rose and I took to Cali in 2007.  I'm thankful for the opportunity that we had to go on this trip and the memories that we made!

 This was taken at the pier in Monterey...man, this makes me want to go back.  Like yesterday.  Prepare yourselves for (probably many) more pictures from this trip.