Winter break in the South

[melodyssister]

So we set off on the morning of Christmas eve, heading south. Since our previous trip to Durham, NC, had been a very traumatic traffic jam, we decided to avoid the I-95 as much as possible and instead start properly with a visit to an 18th century plantation, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello (on the previous weekend, we prepared mentally by watching

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[teddyradiator]

I'm sorry I didn't realise you were touring down in my neck of the woods - we would have loved to have shown you around!
Charleston is one of our treasures - it and Savannah are essentially sisters, and both of them have a lot of lovely things to see and do.

Yes, Gone With The Wind is a dish better read than watched, although the movie is beautiful to look at in terms of cinematography. Mitchell's book is a great read. Atlanta now is exactly as she described it then - a sprawling, pushy place full of noise and crowds and craziness, and the people that live there wouldn't live anywhere else.

Asheville is an odd bird of a southern town, but very artsy now, which it never was in my youth.

What a wonderful way to have a winter break! So adventurous. We are such homebodies at times.

[melodyssister]

Love the aviator icon! And so kind of you to offer, Southern hospitality really is a thing. You are in South Carolina, if I remember correctly, and we basically decided that once we left Savannah, we would go more or less straight to Richmond, as ADC had to leave for a conference in Florida on Saturday (he's still there and suffering from humidity, while I am back in Maryland, looking at snow!). Coming from Israel, we still find American distances rather intimidating - that "weekend trip" to Patterson just blows my mind! But as we only have a year in America, we are trying to see as much of it as we can; we will quite probably never come back as a family for an extended length time. I always think that when you live somewhere permanently there is less of a drive to see other parts of the country, because it will always be there.

We might be going specifically to SC in late March, and if we do, I will certainly look you up.