Author: Bob Saldeen

Super thrilled to have finally made it to Space 139, possibly one of the most famous in all of the RVer’s world. There we are! Right there at 139. With our wonderful friends Alice and Phil.

We loved visiting this place.  Built in the depression by a railroad/shipbuilding magnate as a “getaway” retreat from NYC, especially for his wife, a sculptor who suffered from TB.  He (Mr. Huntington) was a nut about Spain and the Moorish architecture, and built an all-brick structure loosely following that style.  It’s all part of the Huntington Beach State Park complex now. $5 for admission and an audio tour.

Not much furniture or anything of the interior left; but fun walking around, and the audio tour is excellent.

Really cool campground just 100 yards from the beach; and a great beach too.

Where the civil war began…

Takes a half-hour ferry ride, and you have an hour on the island. It’s not as big as I expected.  A park ranger gave a moving presentation about the US flag and then asked audience members to help bring it down for the night and fold it.

I got the best picture 😂

Charleston harbor.

Out the window this morning at James Island County Park.  It’s a beautiful park, but lots of low-hanging trees (live oaks/moss) to negotiate on the way in.  We’re here and safe though, and The Raven made it with flying colors.  Cold too; below freezing this AM.

James Island is the closest/coolest campground to Charleston, which we’re exploring later today. Or tomorrow.

Lisa made an unforgettable “drunken noodles” last night for dinner. Not sure how they got drunk but they were wonderful.

We picked a miserable day for Tybee but managed to make up for it at lunch at The Deck. Had the most remarkable mushroom tacos. Menu said “wild mushrooms, fennel, avocado, feta crema.” Unbelievably delish. They also had corn on the cob with chili powder and other stuff–panko maybe. Also great. What is “feta crema” you might ask?  Whipped feta.  Made the dish vegetarian, rather than vegan, but that’s splittin’ hairs, right?

Mushroom taco below.  The green stuff looked like green onions, not fennel.  Not sure where the fennel was.

 

Corn

Beachside at The Deck on Tybee Island but pretty awful outside.

Shrimp, sausage, corn and potatoes, with yellow sauce* and seasonings. Fantastic and seemingly semi healthy. Savannah Seafood Shack.

*yes, I know what “yellow sauce” is…

This is a pan of water (to put campfire out) from the tap at Skidaway Island SP. Not sure what’s in it, or what it is, or if it’s just air bubbles.

In any case, for Raven’s water supply, we put a filter on the tap, put it through a portable water softener, then it’s filtered once again. Most drinking/cooking water is from jugs. (I’ll drink coffee made from our special drinking tap–that water is triple filtered…)