Hilton Head Residency: Summary & Errata
We have come to the end of another travel diary. All that's left is the summary and some errata that didn't fit anywhere else.
En Route to Hilton Head
1. Christmas with M's family
2. New Year's with My family
Hilton Head and Environs
3. Arrival
4. Visiting Jessica & Ned in Charleston, Fort Sumter
5. My parents visit
6. Lawton Stables, Hilton Head Lighthouse
7. Dolphin Tour, Tybee Island, Fort Pulaski, Savannah
8. Pinckney Island
Going Home
9. Congaree National Park, The Andy Griffith Museum, New River Gorge National Park
Errata Posts
10. Visiting South Carolina
11. Cooking on Hilton Head
My completely locked down photos are on Facebook.
And now a few other notes that didn't quite fit elsewhere.
- The first floor master suite had a large glass sliding door out to a patio, which itself adjoined a large screened in porch. Given the January weather, we didn't use it very much. That same sliding door faced the rising sun, and every morning when the sun rose, a very confused lady cardinal would attack her reflection in the glass. This was almost always loud enough to wake us up earlier than we wanted to be up. The attacks would occasionally pivot to the sliding door into the living room, which was at a right angle to the bedroom sliding door, and would generally continue until the sun rose high enough for the reflections to disappear. The moral of the story is apparently don't mess with confused lady cardinals.
- Since the cardinal woke me up early most days, I started work early most days. That let me go for a walk on the beach around 4:30 while Birdie napped and the sun started to set, which was always a good time. One morning toward the end of our stay I intentionally got up even earlier so I could watch the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean. That was nice.
- The master suite had a very nice walk-in shower. Given how often Birdie went to the beach, we tried to get her take a shower for ease of clean up. She wasn't interested until we started calling the shower a "splash park." Birdie loves splash parks, so after we figured out that hack she wanted to go to the "splash park" over and over.
- There was a very good New York style bagel placed called Island Bagel & Deli. Perhaps even more excitingly, the Publix grocery store near our condo had not just smoked salmon, but both lox AND nova. Since we typically settle for smoked salmon at home, we indulged heavily. We got bagels once when my parents were there and again at least one other time. Fun note - both times that I recall we got bagels were on Sundays. Both times, there was a group of folks tailgating in the parking lot with their bagels and coffee.
- M found that the Hilton Head library had a used book sale room, so Birdie came home with many more books than she arrived with.
- Speaking of reading, I brought three books with me and finished them all. In order, they were Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson v.3: Master of the Senate, John Helyar's explanation of the business of baseball from the beginning to 1994, Lords of the Realm, and Leo Durocher's memoir of a baseball life Nice Guys Finish Last. The first two were excellent and worth reading by most anybody; Durocher's book feels a bit dated but has good stories for people who love baseball.
- We kept running into people from Ohio on Hilton Head. Apparently everybody from Cincinnati retires there, and we saw a fair number of people in Browns gear as well.
And that was our work residency on Hilton Head. M and Birdie got to go outside a lot, we had a bunch of great weekends together, we saw a lot of family both en route and on the island, we visited friends, and we hit a bunch of national parks on the way home. Hopefully we'll get to do it again sometime.
En Route to Hilton Head
1. Christmas with M's family
2. New Year's with My family
Hilton Head and Environs
3. Arrival
4. Visiting Jessica & Ned in Charleston, Fort Sumter
5. My parents visit
6. Lawton Stables, Hilton Head Lighthouse
7. Dolphin Tour, Tybee Island, Fort Pulaski, Savannah
8. Pinckney Island
Going Home
9. Congaree National Park, The Andy Griffith Museum, New River Gorge National Park
Errata Posts
10. Visiting South Carolina
11. Cooking on Hilton Head
My completely locked down photos are on Facebook.
And now a few other notes that didn't quite fit elsewhere.
- The first floor master suite had a large glass sliding door out to a patio, which itself adjoined a large screened in porch. Given the January weather, we didn't use it very much. That same sliding door faced the rising sun, and every morning when the sun rose, a very confused lady cardinal would attack her reflection in the glass. This was almost always loud enough to wake us up earlier than we wanted to be up. The attacks would occasionally pivot to the sliding door into the living room, which was at a right angle to the bedroom sliding door, and would generally continue until the sun rose high enough for the reflections to disappear. The moral of the story is apparently don't mess with confused lady cardinals.
- Since the cardinal woke me up early most days, I started work early most days. That let me go for a walk on the beach around 4:30 while Birdie napped and the sun started to set, which was always a good time. One morning toward the end of our stay I intentionally got up even earlier so I could watch the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean. That was nice.
- The master suite had a very nice walk-in shower. Given how often Birdie went to the beach, we tried to get her take a shower for ease of clean up. She wasn't interested until we started calling the shower a "splash park." Birdie loves splash parks, so after we figured out that hack she wanted to go to the "splash park" over and over.
- There was a very good New York style bagel placed called Island Bagel & Deli. Perhaps even more excitingly, the Publix grocery store near our condo had not just smoked salmon, but both lox AND nova. Since we typically settle for smoked salmon at home, we indulged heavily. We got bagels once when my parents were there and again at least one other time. Fun note - both times that I recall we got bagels were on Sundays. Both times, there was a group of folks tailgating in the parking lot with their bagels and coffee.
- M found that the Hilton Head library had a used book sale room, so Birdie came home with many more books than she arrived with.
- Speaking of reading, I brought three books with me and finished them all. In order, they were Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson v.3: Master of the Senate, John Helyar's explanation of the business of baseball from the beginning to 1994, Lords of the Realm, and Leo Durocher's memoir of a baseball life Nice Guys Finish Last. The first two were excellent and worth reading by most anybody; Durocher's book feels a bit dated but has good stories for people who love baseball.
- We kept running into people from Ohio on Hilton Head. Apparently everybody from Cincinnati retires there, and we saw a fair number of people in Browns gear as well.
And that was our work residency on Hilton Head. M and Birdie got to go outside a lot, we had a bunch of great weekends together, we saw a lot of family both en route and on the island, we visited friends, and we hit a bunch of national parks on the way home. Hopefully we'll get to do it again sometime.