Leaving the Low Country

A week is very short. I just realized that actually our weeks are 6 days, one day is traveling. Ha! When we are stopping for a week at the time. We had hoped to re-tour Charleston, but no luck.  We drove over to Charleston AFB, but the weather was not conducive to touristing (my word).

(Charleston Pics, I could not find mine from the last time down!)

I still loved the drive over and back, I am hooked on roads (black top) , our friend Paula here on the blogland loves those dirt country roads.

Oh, and that reminds me. There is an OLD cemetery within walking distance of here. We walked thru it, I found one, so weather worn all you could make out was the first name ‘Judie Deveaux ’ and the dates, 1840-1909. My mind goes to wandering what did Judie see in her life. That is living thru the Civil War.  (I think it should be Uncivil War, war cannot be civil.)

Judie Deveaux

But Judie lived to see the light bulb begin to replace the kerosene lamp, but not where she lived. She lived to see a Car (maybe) and heard of the first airplane flight (1903). She never earned over a nickel an hour in her life in South Carolina.

She must have been a tough lady to live 69 years, she outlived her peers.

(A sign of Low Country,  the grave covered with concrete protection from flooding)

So much history in a grave yard, most of it forgotten in this type of cemetery. I hope some of her family is still around and remember her. Sometime I would like to find the graves of my grand parents, just to touch base. I am not sure if anyone is alive now that knows where they are buried.  We moved a lot growing up, I remember going to Georgia to funerals, but I was less than 5 years old.

We leave Wednesday morning, it is only a 3-4 hour drive. I am trying to drive 55 to save fuel.  Have you noticed diesel and gas is getting higher. I did see $3.78 reg, and $4.05 diesel here, and SC is supposed to be the cheapest state around for fuel.

Thanks for coming by the LOG.

Nite shipslog

PS:

International signs:

Cocktail lounge, Norway:
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.

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After I posted the silly sign from Norway, I looked for a car in Norway, I found this one. Showing that Car lovers are world wide. I do not know this car, but it is the 1930’s by the body style. (IMHO)

Gas appeared to be $13 a gal.