Day 169: Charleston

Charleston Maritime Center (docked)

July 3, 2022

Once I caught up on my sleep, I discovered that I left my laptop charger in Lake Tahoe. If we lived in a house, this inconvenience would be minor – I could order a new charger from Amazon and have it delivered in a a couple of days. We have to leave the Maritime Center by 11:00am on July 5, as another boat is coming into that spot. Luckily, my best friend, Samantha, is visiting me today.

Samantha, John and I had brunch and then Samantha and I set out on a huge Charleston adventure that included Best Buy (for a replacement charging cord), Target (we were looking for shoes), Caw Caw (my favorite park), ice cream (needed to cool off after the park), the post office, the Dollar Tree, Auto Zone, and Harris Teeter. I haven’t driven since January 12, but it wasn’t difficult to remember how to do it.

I have missed spending time with Samantha. Being able to walk and talk for an entire day was pretty perfect. We pretty much fixed all of the problems in the world, even if it was only for a few seconds.

Our meander through Caw Caw was rewarding (as always). We even got to see a yound armadillo doing its thing.

There was an adolescent gator on the path; she was probably 3 feet or so.

There were all kinds of cool spiders handing out in the park which is probably why the toad we saw was nice and plump.

John had a well-deserved easy day, too. He spent some time hanging around downtown Charleston and came home to a very happy wife.