Cumulative elevation gain: 433 feet
Weather: 80-ish, sunny, windy
Attitude: Back on track, 100% improved from yesterday!
Once again I rode in the van this morning, avoiding another 30 miles much like yesterday's. The remaining 40 was very pleasant, low traffic back roads (some of them even smooth!), through woods and swamp. In fact, we rode through the Hell Hole swamp; through Jamestown, home of the annual Hell Hole Swamp festival (which we will just miss); and past the Hell Hole Swamp Coon Club. Perhaps it gets more hellish in prime mosquito season, but today it was pretty in it's swampish way, cypress trees and cypress knees and black, black water.
By mid-afternoon we rode over a high bridge and into quaint Georgetown SC, located at the confluence of 4 rivers and the 2nd largest seaport in South Carolina. There's a big steel mill at the edge of town but downtown is a very pretty touristy area with many nice restaurants and at least one decent coffee shop. The guy that served me my latte could have been Robert Duvall's twin, and I'm apparently not the first person to point that out to him. Wish I had taken his picture!
Coffee and ice cream and enough energy left to ride a bit through the very pleasant live-oak-lined streets of this little town. Then at dinner we were serenaded by mockingbirds which I think were working on building a nest in the tree right above where I was sitting.
A good day.
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| Nancy I. on the Georgetown boardwalk |
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| Harbor in Georgetown SC |
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| Streets of Georgetown |
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| Driveway to an old plantation |
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| Typical of today's roads |
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