Boone Hall Plantation

The morning we left Wilmington it was about 8 C/40 F and we wore every layer we could..including long johns and rain gear....geeezzzz where the heck is the spring???  We drove to Myrtle Beach and discovered miles and miles of tacky family oriented activities all along the road....the road went on forever and then we found out that was only NORTH Myrtle Beach.  So we got back onto Hwy 17 but still it took forever to get through the built up area.  The weather remained cold and a bit windy.....which reminds me...how do you gage the wind?  How about when you are high on a bridge hanging on for life on the bike and you wonder "what the heck is that beside me?"  Upon looking over it is a bird gliding on the wind going at the same speed as you about 12 feet from the bike.
We continued on through a large forested area and arrived on the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina, where we stopped off to visit the Boone Hall Plantation.  It has a magnificent entrance lined with Live Oak trees and dripping Spanish Moss.  The mansion is the 3rd edition of the original; it was build by a Canadian in the 1930s !  There is an excellent black history presentation provided in a number of brick slave houses.  BTW, the weather warmed up mid-afternoon = yeah.  And Bev finally got to wash her bike.