NOT Enough Time to See it All! | Family RV Road Trip Visiting Charleston, South Carolina

Añadido: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Hello and good morning friends from beautiful Charleston, South Carolina.

[00:00:05]Today is our day to go and explore.

[00:00:07]Everybody's getting loaded up in the van and we'll bring you along for the different things that we check out today. We're hoping to go to downtown Charleston. We're going to go to a plantation to learn about that history a little bit more hands-on.

[00:00:26]We'll see what else comes up today.

[00:00:28]Right, we've made it to the Boonh Hall plantation.

[00:00:46]>> There's a slave house.

[00:00:47]>> We're going to spend the day or the morning learning about the history of this area.

[00:01:00]We already realized we were on the main road. This property actually goes several miles out to the road. There were farms on the way in that I showed.

[00:01:11]Those were all part of this phone hall.

[00:01:34]So, we start out in guest hospitality.

[00:01:36]They assign you a time to do certain things to make sure that you get the most out of your experience here. And there's also just a map and lots of information. A lot to do here.

[00:01:49]>> 10:00's your house tour. We would like to do the enslaved thing >> or the >> There's a 940 talk.

[00:01:55]>> Is that two?

[00:01:56]>> Yeah. Go straight over to cabins one and two.

[00:02:08]>> Yes.

[00:02:10]>> Watch Violet.

[00:02:12]>> Stop.

[00:02:15]Violet. I see.

[00:02:19]>> The boys are doing a scavenger hunt as they're here. Okay, these trees are amazing. We're going to start our day at the slavery talk.

[00:02:35]>> The big like >> the >> the >> um >> the view down that road is just epic.

[00:02:45]slave dwellings,000 they have 800 slaves.

[00:02:51]>> We were at the height 4200 acres, 1200 acres. We start out with these original slave cabin 1895 to 1905. That's when they were constructed by the enslaved.

[00:03:02]The bricks were secondary bricks >> cuz bricks was a big thing making them out here. They built it. They're 12 by 30, 360 square ft.

[00:03:14]So we just listened to the slave talk which was very informative. They grew cotton here and brick factory at the height. They had 320 slaves. And then after the civil war about 150 stayed on to work here to make bricks to build up Charleston.

[00:03:40]sad history, but it is what this was built on. Now, we're going to go on the house tour. We're going to come back and go through the different slave houses afterwards and learn about them.

[00:03:56]>> That's beautiful. Here's those tanks from getting through. See, if you didn't have it, they get inside the house and at night when you lay to rest, they jump on your chest.

[00:04:04]>> No filming inside, but very cool.

[00:04:10]That's right.

[00:04:10]>> Well, that other room there about the owners today.

[00:04:16]>> Well, there's only one owner left.

[00:04:18]>> Drive us around.

[00:04:24]>> So, this current home is the fourth house that's been on this one got destroyed by a fire, one a hurricane, the third one was a farmhouse, and then they tore down the farmhouse and built this beautiful house.

[00:04:36]>> It's interesting. He talked about how on the plantation they also made lots of bricks and that's why this area has all these bricks. They would make them out of the creek that's behind here and uh had a big industry with their slaves and brick making.

[00:04:49]>> This area the water is too brackish to do rice which other plantations do rice.

[00:04:55]So this one did bricks and cotton.

[00:04:58]>> It's good food geese.

[00:05:00]>> Yeah.

[00:05:02]>> The big magnolia tree here.

[00:05:04]>> Oh yeah.

[00:05:06]It's pretty cool spot, you know, >> if we built that in years.

[00:05:09]>> So, this house is 10,000 square ft. Has eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms. They don't allow you to go upstairs because they said the insurance on going up the stairs would be way too much. But we did get to tour the downstairs. Pretty incredible.

[00:05:27]A big dining hall, a big sitting room.

[00:05:32]>> The doorways were 5t wide by really tall. just because people had big dresses. Very interesting history.

[00:05:41]>> Next, we're going to go on this little tractor tour of the plantation and gardens.

[00:05:51]>> Love it.

[00:05:51]>> Yeah, we love it.

[00:05:56]>> Phones, wallets, keys, cameras, children, and spouses. If anyone's drinking out of glass bottles or metal water bottles, please be especially careful. is one of the owners who had passed away. It's a bench.

[00:06:09]>> Usually blooms right around Easter or Mother's Day. The green side of the bench is the oldest tree on the property right around 20 ft. The one to its left, the branch on the high side right now.

[00:06:19]When it's low tide, you see the pluck mud down in there. You can certainly smell it, too. This is a man-made pond and all the irrigation for our crops. No problem.

[00:06:27]>> Actually, the second ranch's got an alligator lay for each foot in length an alligator here. It took them several years to get this place cleared of brush and trees. Small brickyard producing a decent amount of bricks. When the whole took over, they expanded the debris.

[00:06:41]People work in these cotton fields. Sun up to sun down. 38 cents a pound to 3 cents a pound. So the 19 holidays unless the squ over >> blueberries >> here which is really about grape and Great.

[00:07:01]>> This season started later. We planted these peach trees shortly after he passed. These are right up underneath the tarts. We're going to check them.

[00:07:08]So, right underneath and they formed one big interlocking channel.

[00:07:13]>> Thank you. Thank you.

[00:07:19]>> So interesting.

[00:07:21]This place has gone through so many iterations over the years. So, it's got the history of being the plantation.

[00:07:29]They grew cotton. They made bricks, slave labor. Then after the Civil War, indentured servants that were paid with money that could only be spent here, which is just the prices were super high. It's actually really devastating that those people that had been mistreated for so long then were continued to be mistreated even though they were sharecroppers here and they were given money, but the money was only able to be spent here. And then the prices were so high. So it just continued to be kind of a very tricky history here. But after that history, they had pecan trees which have now pretty much all been killed off by hurricanes. Um they had peach trees that there was a flood that killed those off.

[00:08:17]Um they do have strawberries and blueberries and peaches. There they are regrowing peaches and they have tomatoes that they grow. We have a farm stand out at the road. We're kind of in between crops. Strawberries are going to start in a week or so. They're going to start harvesting those. Um, but most of the crops go through the fall. They have fall festivals and things like that. So, they have created a beautiful space here through these programs, but also for the community and the farming that they're doing now. But it has a very sad history of slave labor and very reverent feeling when you are over here by these slave houses. And um right now we are on different tours that are timed out, but we will be going through those slave houses later to learn more about that when we have the free time to go through.

[00:09:15]>> These roses smell amazing. I don't know if I've ever seen such a big rose. This is like a rose tree, not a rose.

[00:09:21]>> These are roses.

[00:09:23]>> Look at them. No, you're not going to take one. You can look at them. Look how beautiful this is.

[00:09:29]Look. You could take one off of the ground.

[00:09:31]>> They're not quite >> Nope. They're not.

[00:09:35]>> No, we're not. The owner of this plantation is an 84 year old woman and she does live somewhere on the property and will come and play the piano and just spend time here.

[00:09:46]>> So, she allowed to play the piano whenever she wants.

[00:09:48]>> Yep.

[00:09:50]>> Even during tour?

[00:09:52]>> Sure.

[00:09:53]Oh, that's a holly plant.

[00:09:58]>> They explained the Spanish moss. For some reason, I thought that it like just like came into the trees, but it grows there. Look how it does not hurt any of these trees.

[00:10:22]At the height, this plantation had 320 slaves and then after the civil war had about 120 indentured servants. They said on the wall in the house there was a receipt for buying a slave and it was equivalent today in $27,000.

[00:10:43]Smokehouse. This is the oldest existing structure at Boonh Hall Plantation. It is where meat was cured and stored for yearround consumption.

[00:10:52]Very interesting.

[00:10:54]We are going to go watch a presentation.

[00:10:59]I think it's called the Gala presentation and it's highly recommended.

[00:11:07]Oh, we got to get over there. Wow, look at this brick wall. It like goes in and out.

[00:11:15]This is one of the most wellthoughtout tours I've ever been on. They have it all timed out so you can get to each thing and they tell you when you get here what order you should do things in based off of what time you arrive.

[00:11:33]It's very well done so that you can get to all the different presentations and things.

[00:11:42]So these slave houses here are in the original area. They are very nice compared to what the slaves would have lived in that were working out in the cotton fields and in the brick making. These were for the people that were skilled laborers and would work in the house and on things like masonry, um, blacksmith, things like that. Would have lived in these bit nicer houses.

[00:12:15]I'm not sure what you actually call them. I should look that up. Are they houses?

[00:12:22]In each one of these is some little museum that we'll come back and look at.

[00:12:36]>> Aloha. Shalom.

[00:12:39]Oh, I have to say to what they're asking is been here or come here.

[00:12:56]I am a beigny cuz I'm a native Charleston and my family goes back a long way here >> in Massachusetts.

[00:13:04]>> It's going to be 50 by the weekend. So, >> it was 56 yesterday.

[00:13:08]>> Wow. Mother nature is very upset with us.

[00:13:16]>> She said it so well.

[00:13:18]>> Some of the history here is unpleasant, >> but it needs to be told. Needs to be passed on. We need to learn from our past. So that's why we're here showing our children. Oh, there's a ladybug.

[00:13:32]>> Oh, that's where they do the weddings.

[00:13:34]That's cool.

[00:13:36]So back in the day there were no roads out to this place. It was very isolated and they would come and go by the river and the waters that are around here. So this is the dock house where people would have come to this property.

[00:13:51]This is also where they hold weddings.

[00:13:53]Now The smell in here is incredible. Smells so good.

[00:14:16]>> Oh, an oyster shell.

[00:14:18]>> Two oyster. So, they're different oysters.

[00:14:22]>> Wonder if that's from their oyster.

[00:14:27]probably is from >> they have that oyster thing.

[00:14:35]>> Kind of interesting to imagine that this is how they got in and out of here with all their slays and all the goods.

[00:14:42]>> Pecan tree or pecan. Down here it's pecan nut requiring a stone to crack. In 1892, Major John Horlbeck began planting pecan seedlings at B Boon Hall. He had over 15,000 pecan trees on 4,000 acres of land, making it one of the largest pecan orchards in the world.

[00:15:06]Pecan harvesting and processing at Boonh Hall took place in October. First, workers hit the pecan tree pecan, sorry, that they said down here. It's pecan pecan trees with long poles, knocking at the branches until the nuts fell. A second crew then gathered the nuts on sheets. According to a 1913 article in the trade publication, the pecan orchards at Boon Hall were among the best in the country in height, spread, and symmetry. They have few equals among orchard pecans.

[00:15:32]Unfortunately, due to hurricanes and other problems, they have very few pecans here anymore, but they have planted a few new trees. So this was the commissary, some stables.

[00:15:51]Going to go over to the butterfly cafe, which is a little gift shop and cafe.

[00:15:56]The boys were given a card for their good behavior in the tour to get an ice cream. Here >> they turned it in. But there's none in there.

[00:16:09]>> Oh, at that guy back at his.

[00:16:12]>> Where is it?

[00:16:12]>> Four.

[00:16:13]>> Cabin cabin four. I just have to go get that thing.

[00:16:16]>> I think if they give you a business card. What is that?

[00:16:20]>> Well, that was a nice little treat that all the kids got an ice cream for being well behaved.

[00:16:29]>> Now we get a little stable tour.

[00:16:32]>> I just found this couple. This barn goes back to the 1930s and um horses haven't really lived back here for about 70 years which is really smart cuz it keeps it clean and dry. Now the lady that owns these horses, she's using one of those rope bags. Secretary man, he still holds the world's record. He's got and when secretary died.

[00:16:51]>> You hold up.

[00:16:54]>> So this little lady side out side y'all.

[00:16:56]This thing is over 150 years old. And look at this. Which stir would you prefer? Mhm.

[00:17:05]Nobody ever picks this one. Maybe for a bracelet or something, but isn't that crazy? So, they say, "Well, ladies were really had really small feet back then."

[00:17:13]>> Outside of an >> I got to go catch a horse.

[00:17:17]>> Uh my husband's born and raised. I moved there when I was ran a horse.

[00:17:21]>> Wow.

[00:17:23]>> There's a horse. Where's the >> Where's the >> So, this horse barn hunt was built in the 1930s.

[00:17:31]>> Really? The owner liked raceh horses.

[00:17:34]>> Yeah.

[00:17:35]>> So he brought a racehorse over from France and it sired secretariat.

[00:17:41]>> It's grandson is secretariat. So this barn has a history and secretariat.

[00:17:47]>> Wait, is there >> triple crown record has never been beat and it has sired three other >> triple crown >> triple crown winners. So the from the owner of this place, the guy that came from Canada.

[00:17:59]>> You going to be a cowgirl? Wow, look at you climb. You need some help?

[00:18:04]>> Need some help?

[00:18:05]>> I'm doing it.

[00:18:05]>> You're doing it, but you got to go this way. There you go. There you go.

[00:18:11]>> Say yeeha.

[00:18:13]>> Mom, dad.

[00:18:14]>> Yeeha.

[00:18:21]>> Yeehaw.

[00:18:23]>> That one's mom.

[00:18:27]>> Yeehaw.

[00:18:29]Being here at Boon Hall, this place has so many layers of history.

[00:18:34]>> This current barn was in the 1930s. It's associated with the person that built the house that is currently here. And now the horses that are here are polo horses, private owner. She just houses them here. But just kind of layers and layers of history.

[00:18:54]Wow, that's more than 12 million now.

[00:18:56]>> American one still a lot.

[00:19:02]>> So, Dad, >> these are the four triple crown winners.

[00:19:08]>> Old tractor shed, Oliver Case Dearing McCormick, >> and John Deere.

[00:19:24]Wow, look at this old >> This is a very old table, too.

[00:19:29]>> A school table.

[00:19:33]>> This is the T. That's the tractor.

[00:19:38]The visitors center here is the cotton gin originally, and they have a museum in here. I feel like looking at this at the end will make everything make more sense now that we've been to all the different bits and pieces. It'll just be like everything will fit together when we walk through the museum and the cotton gin. At least in my mind. That's It didn't make much sense when we first got here, but now that we've seen everything, it will make a lot more sense. They keep saying what a perfect day we got for this. It's not too hot.

[00:20:07]>> Think I can turn it in?

[00:20:08]>> Yeah, I think you can turn it in. Yep.

[00:20:11]>> The kids did a scavenger hunt. Just wait your turn. Just wait in line.

[00:20:15]>> Number four.

[00:20:16]>> That's number four. The house number four. Oh yeah, >> we're going to go in just a minute. Hold on.

[00:20:24]>> The trick is you can't reserve them. So if there's someone else there, >> lunch table.

[00:20:28]>> No, you got to flip to the next one or whatever. But >> Violet loves these tractors.

[00:20:35]Okay, we had our little picnic lunch.

[00:20:40]Dad, >> want to go check out the house, the slave houses before we leave. One thing that they mentioned that they currently have on the farm is >> a lot of beehives. So, they sell their honey here.

[00:20:56]>> The diaper bag's in the car.

[00:20:59]>> Our boiled peanuts already.

[00:21:04]salsas, pickled carrots.

[00:21:11]>> Captain Bobby, >> peaches.

[00:21:16]They got some cers.

[00:21:39]They made this right here as a sticker.

[00:21:47]>> These are interesting. These are painted on oyster shells.

[00:21:51]>> Somebody painted.

[00:21:56]>> It's lunchtime. I I wash my hands with >> All right. Apparently, stickers are not a thing at many places, which makes it a little tricky when we want to >> do our I got this.

[00:22:08]>> Oh, Everett got this for completing the scavenger hunt.

[00:22:12]And uh we'll just have to make our own sticker for Boon Hall. What?

[00:22:17]>> Lots of magnets, but no stickers.

[00:22:20]Grandpa's 84th.

[00:22:23]>> True.

[00:22:23]>> Ready to go.

[00:22:25]>> Not me. I want to go have a very nice look at the slave cabins.

[00:22:30]>> This tree here is giant. And these giant oaks, they've only lost they planted 98 of them and only two have been lost. One in a hurricane, one being struck by lightning.

[00:22:52]Just go buy stuff at Walmart.

[00:22:58]I'm sorry. You said Walmart said, >> you know, I tell my son you couldn't just go back and stuff at Walmart, you know.

[00:23:05]>> Not not these.

[00:23:10]>> You had to make everything.

[00:23:18]>> Wow, this is cool.

[00:23:29]We've got a little garden here that represents maybe what they would have grown to supplement their food as slaves. This is cotton. And then this is indigo. They told us that the life expectancy of somebody working with indigo because of all the costic things that they had to add to it was 5 years.

[00:23:50]And that was the first crop that they were harvesting here was indigo until the revolution because their biggest buyer of indigo was Great Britain. And then when the revolutionary war happened that stopped and then they had to move over to cotton and once the cotton gin was created then they were able to make that a profitable crop.

[00:24:15]Captain, the slave boys were the center of their family life. When the slaves were not working, this is where they would be.

[00:24:25]These specific cabins here in Boon Hall date back to the late 1700s, early 1800s, and have been maintained in very much the same condition as they would have been in the 18th century.

[00:24:37]>> What you're seeing here is how slave capital you would have been up there.

[00:24:41]However, you would have slept would have had dividing walls separating it into two or three rooms.

[00:24:48]The survival of these cabins can be largely contributed to the fact that they were made out of scrap bricks from the brickyard.

[00:24:58]>> Interesting images >> is how by the early 19th century the slaves had taken on many by then many of the slaves were American born. This goes up.

[00:25:20]>> They like make something.

[00:25:21]>> Oh, this is just made out of remnants.

[00:25:23]It's just made into an art piece.

[00:25:25]>> Buttons. Look.

[00:25:27]>> Can I hold you? Don't get on my back.

[00:25:36]>> 200 >> 21. The 1883 Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not outlaw individual or business racial discrimination. Every attempt was made to prevent black men from voting and violence.

[00:25:58]>> I'm so glad that we came early this morning because it has gotten really busy and we were able to just experience everything with barely any people around.

[00:26:08]Really, these cabins, they start with life of the slaves and move all the way to emancipation and then the civil rights movement and all the work that's still being done to reclaim their heritage. And what comes to my heart is just the fact that they were such a resilient people.

[00:26:29]Uh they were going through the unimaginable, but they were able to retain their culture.

[00:26:35]Uh they did their best to retain family units and just never >> live a life that had meaning even under really difficult circumstances.

[00:26:46]Violet's bringing me back to all the different houses. She's exploring.

[00:26:58]One thing they pointed out to us was that it said anywhere between 40 and 80.

[00:27:03]They're not exactly sure percent of the slaves that came to America came through South Carolina. And then to look at the total that came in or left and the total that actually got here, 298 left and 224 >> disembarked.

[00:27:23]How many died, jumped overboard, or starved on their way over from Africa?

[00:27:31]Good job going down those stairs.

[00:27:36]>> In 1860 here in Charleston at Fort S. And on January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation which freed all slaves from the United States. Daddy, >> this dream however was dependent on a military victory.

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[00:29:48]Five miles about 18 minutes.

[00:30:10]All right, we found a parking garage.

[00:30:14]It >> is loud in here. They are doing jackhammering.

[00:30:19]>> Wow, look at all these buildings. How they're connected like that even though they're different.

[00:30:28]>> All morning we were told we need to try shrimp and grits and that it's different here in Charleston than anywhere else.

[00:30:37]Are we going to go get that?

[00:30:38]>> I don't know. We got to figure out if we can find some that are easy to get.

[00:30:45]This is the Charleston City Market.

[00:30:49]>> Yeah, I'm ready to walk through this.

[00:30:52]>> Beautiful sweet grass baskets.

[00:30:55]Oh, Rainbow Row. We're going to go see the Rainbow Row.

[00:31:09]This is so different.

[00:31:11]>> I like it.

[00:31:22]There's a peanut butter cups.

[00:31:24]>> Wow.

[00:31:25]>> M shrimp and cheese grits.

[00:31:31]Combined grits package. Water. Salt.

[00:31:33]Butter. Bring to a boil. Not included.

[00:31:36]We do have shrimp in the freezer. We'll have to We'll have to come back through here.

[00:31:41]Good night, Charleston.

[00:31:44]Hello, Charleston.

[00:31:47]Local baby Charleston.

[00:31:52]>> Charleston Shoe Company.

[00:31:56]>> Oh, they're all so colorful and fun.

[00:32:00]>> Machine washable.

[00:32:06]>> Carlson Hatman.

[00:32:10]Yeah, I like these >> fun bright dresses.

[00:32:22]>> Oh man, these are so cute. These little dresses. They look like that old dress Violet.

[00:32:30]>> So adorable.

[00:32:32]>> That looks like that birthday dress Violet was sent. Beautiful church at the end of the street there. A lot of horse tours going by.

[00:32:45]>> The boys were told at the carriage house at Boon Hall that the beers get the beers the horses get a beer at the end of the day.

[00:32:55]>> So they can't >> so that they helps them sweat.

[00:32:58]>> Yeah.

[00:33:09]Hand painted Easter eggs. Wow.

[00:33:13]Something for everyone and so many talented people. Just keeps going and going and going.

[00:33:24]>> And they they like painted the outline.

[00:33:26]Oh, these are so good. If you want to take it to the next level, we got to figure out how to paint the eye. So like right here, these black ones and you get >> how to do that.

[00:33:37]>> You need to take notes on how good these are.

[00:33:42]>> Wow.

[00:33:44]>> Make it look that way for like five takes them like five hours to make one of them.

[00:33:51]>> Yeah, >> these are all really pretty.

[00:34:01]Oh, that is a fancy.

[00:34:04]>> What is that?

[00:34:05]>> That's the United States custom. If you're legal as you can order that.

[00:34:10]>> So, this is the French Quarter in Charleston.

[00:34:17]>> The interesting thing about going through that market is so many amazing artists.

[00:34:23]Most of the art was of Charleston, but just in such different ways. Different color palettes, different mediums, but all the same subject. It's fun to see how different people interpret it. These alleyways are so cool with the cobblestone.

[00:34:41]There's a church at the end.

[00:34:44]And this is Magnolia's uptown down south dining. Oh, it looks like a very nice restaurant here. This is interesting.

[00:35:02]>> An old building.

[00:35:05]>> We're almost there.

[00:35:05]>> I do like it, though. Look how different each building is, even though they're built like so close to each other.

[00:35:15]>> Wow.

[00:35:21]Look how different these ones are over here, too.

[00:35:25]>> Oh gosh, that scared me.

[00:35:27]>> There's a skeletons down in there. I think that's for the dungeon tour.

[00:35:34]>> The tavern from 1686.

[00:35:40]>> Rainbow Row.

[00:35:44]>> Yep.

[00:35:46]Hi, some businesses.

[00:35:48]East Bay Street, Rainbow Row, represents the longest cluster of intact Georgian row houses in the United States. The earliest structures on this portion of East Bay Street between Trad and Elliot Street were built in 1680.

[00:36:02]Wow.

[00:36:07]>> If the sun was coming down, it would be >> Wow. Look at these cool little courtyards in there.

[00:36:12]If the sun was coming down like this right here, these many of them still have these little gas powered lanterns. They're so cool.

[00:36:35]>> Love the sky blue with the blue shutters.

[00:36:42]And then they'll paint.

[00:36:48]>> This door would be cool.

[00:36:50]>> Yeah, it's so pretty. They did an amazing job on those flowers on the sides. This looks so regal.

[00:36:58]>> What?

[00:36:59]>> Just looks regal and nice.

[00:37:02]That building up there says 1806.

[00:37:07]>> Old cobblestone roads.

[00:37:13]the walled city of Charles Town. They used to have like a draw bridge and a >> for a fort like a protected area then, huh?

[00:37:21]>> 1711.

[00:37:23]Look at how different each of these is, you guys.

[00:37:26]>> We found the model.

[00:37:28]Oh, this is terrible driving.

[00:37:31]>> This is so bumpy.

[00:37:33]>> Oh, you know what? This would be fun to bike on.

[00:37:38]>> No bicycle. No bicycles. And look at their garages. Some of them have these garage doors. And look at the lamps, Dad. They are like actual >> Yeah.

[00:37:46]>> flames bikes that they kind of make specially for it. My bike was named because of it. It's got that shock thing in it.

[00:37:57]>> So much character.

[00:38:00]>> So much history.

[00:38:05]>> 1670.

[00:38:06]The Preservation Society of Charleston Award 2015 1670. Wow.

[00:38:16]Looks like bamboo.

[00:38:19]We're going to walk down the waterfront park.

[00:38:33]>> Okay. So Fort Sumpter is out there. You can only get to it by a boat. That's where the first shots of the Civil War were occurred between the Union and between Confederate forces there. Yeah, >> I can see why it would be a really good spot to protect Charles here, like right in the harbor. Any boat that came in would be, you know, a target there to be able to protect that boat. Huh.

[00:39:03]We considered going out there, but we've been to two forts already. And you have to take a ferry out there and it was quite expensive. We just figured there might be other things to experience here since we already did two forts, but would be awesome. These little row houses are so they just have so much character and they're all so different.

[00:39:23]>> I wonder how old they are, too. They're probably hundreds of years old.

[00:39:26]>> Yeah, >> for sure.

[00:39:30]The other thing we considered was going out to the battleship out there, but I'm not sure that's going to happen either.

[00:39:36]It's already 3:30 in the afternoon, and kids have been very well behaved, but you can only do so many activities in one day before we start to lose focus and interest.

[00:39:55]>> Okay, we were wrong. The fort is actually a bit further out in the harbor.

[00:40:00]>> What's that smell?

[00:40:01]>> Okay, so there are pineapples all around and we are reading about it. It says in South Carolina, the pineapple is iconic symbol of southern hospitality, wealth, and safe harbors deeply rooted in colonial history. Historically, sea captains returning from the Caribbean would place a pineapple outside their home to signal their safe return and invite neighbors for a visit.

[00:40:23]So they would place a pineapple out in front of their home when they would come back from a sea voyage to invite people to come say, "I'm back safe. Come and visit." So that is the symbol of the pineapple.

[00:40:36]>> Where would they get it? Like in the Caribbean.

[00:40:37]>> Yeah. From coming back from the Caribbean on their ships.

[00:40:42]>> This is way at your own risk. Can you like wait in the water?

[00:40:45]>> You can.

[00:40:48]Just showing you that sign because I'm sure my children, at least one of them, will end up in the water and it is allowed here in the fountains.

[00:40:58]Wade at your own risk.

[00:41:02]>> You are allowed to get in and walk around.

[00:41:05]>> Why? Why not? I wish you >> most fountains. You're not allowed to go in the one that you are.

[00:41:19]Is it cold?

[00:41:20]>> Hey, that's the Oh, I'm so sorry.

[00:41:24]Oh my.

[00:41:40]Okay. They have a whole list of rules for waiting in the fountains, but it is allowed. You know, they don't want you to be causing problems, but very fun.

[00:42:04]Oh no.

[00:42:15]in the middle there.

[00:42:30]>> It's called the Philadelphia Alleyway.

[00:42:32]>> Philadelphia Alleyway. All right.

[00:42:34]>> Like alleys.

[00:42:36]It's a >> beautiful one.

[00:42:39]It's >> pretty.

[00:42:48]1670.

[00:42:51]>> I know it's hard to believe. 1670.

[00:43:03]>> Feel like taking a step back in time here. This fence have a >> right here. talk about here.

[00:43:10]>> Oh, we're at the raw church. Huh?

[00:43:18]>> St. Phillip's Church.

[00:43:21]>> I wonder how old that dry goods and notions thing up there is.

[00:43:25]>> I wonder.

[00:43:28]>> All right.

[00:43:30]>> 420. We made it back to the parking garage.

[00:43:46]Old Charleston Fire Department.

[00:44:05]Even driving this van through these streets is tricky. So, this is why we have the vehicle that can fit everybody and come explore and keep our fifth wheel out of town. I've seen several of this grocery store called Harris ter.

[00:44:20]I've never seen those before anywhere else. It's a first. I've seen three of them today.

[00:44:26]Hey, there's Lauren Street.

[00:44:48]We're going to have a quick dinner at Chipotle so that we can get back to camp. It's moving day tomorrow, so we're going for an easier evening since we're all pretty tired from our day of exploring.

[00:45:04]Chipotle is not a restaurant we have in Alaska and we have a gift card, so we're going for it.

[00:45:17]>> You want some beans and rice?

[00:45:20]>> You got your own food. This is for Violet right here. Here you go. Here's your >> My yummy.

[00:45:27]>> That's a good deal.

[00:45:29]>> How much was that?

[00:45:30]>> Five bucks.

[00:45:30]>> Okay.

[00:45:31]>> Oo, yummy.

[00:45:35]>> Oh, and I got it.

[00:45:37]>> This is her sour cream.

[00:45:38]>> I was going to dip mine.

[00:45:40]>> Like shake it up.

[00:45:40]>> She loves sour cream.

[00:45:42]>> Did you have a good time today?

[00:45:44]>> Where'd we go?

[00:45:45]>> The farm.

[00:45:46]>> She wants to go to the park.

[00:45:48]>> The park.

[00:45:48]>> Why is she going to the truck store?

[00:45:50]Everett made a cake this morning, so he's putting some chocolate frosting on it.

[00:45:57]>> Wow.

[00:46:02]>> And Violet wants to go to the park.

[00:46:07]>> And the big boys want to go fishing just like >> come home and they're still ready to go do more things.

[00:46:14]>> So you stick it >> and it is determined to catch a bass. I had one.

[00:46:20]>> Put it on here. Bennett, look at this.

[00:46:22]Put it on here.

[00:46:24]>> Violet needed time at the park after all the excursions today. She did so well, but you know, she gets a little bit tired of doing things she doesn't understand. So, the park and sand, she understands. And she likes to have time here every day when available. So, I'm enjoying the sunset. I wish they were fishing over here so I could watch them. Just can't be everywhere at once.

[00:46:49]Hey up and fly.

[00:47:05]>> Three, two, one, go.

[00:47:10]>> Oh no. Oh god.

[00:47:11]>> Well, we tried to come see the boys fishing.

[00:47:16]live over there. But Violet just wants to go to the park. So, I'm going to take her back to the park.

[00:47:23]>> This is nice.

[00:47:26]>> Oh, wow. This is so nice.

[00:47:32]Watching the sunset from a swing.

[00:47:39]Well, friends, today was great.

[00:47:42]Charleston was awesome.

[00:47:48]We loved >> the beach and we love just learning and seeing all the old things >> and the kids ride.

[00:47:55]>> But >> we ride.

[00:47:59]>> Tomorrow is a moving day.

[00:48:04]>> And in order for moving days to go smoothly, we have to do a bunch of stuff the night before.

[00:48:13]Now that includes deflating these.

[00:48:17]>> You got to take it down. Oh, >> of course I am.

[00:48:21]>> I know it's dark, but it's always so sad when we've put everything away for travel day.

[00:48:27]>> We're going to play.

[00:48:30]>> We're not done for the evening. The boys want to go try and play mini golf at the place right outside of this. So, with our parking pass, we get two free games.

[00:48:39]We're going to go take advantage of that. Hunter's staying and watching Violet. Mark's going to go run some errands and he needs to gas up the truck. Never a dull moment.

[00:48:48]>> We're driving and there's a ton of deer on the >> Oh, they ran into the wood >> there. There's some down there.

[00:48:55]>> I see them.

[00:48:58]>> That was a lot.

[00:48:59]>> There's probably eight.

[00:49:02]>> Our campground is right there.

[00:49:07]And this mini golf place fun center is right here. If it was daytime, we could have walked.

[00:49:16]>> That's a cool sticker.

[00:49:17]>> We need to put a this Alaska life sticker.

[00:49:21]>> That is a cool Patagonia sticker.

[00:49:25]>> A fish.

[00:49:25]>> Putting one.

[00:49:26]>> I don't have one.

[00:49:28]>> Oh yeah, there is. I have some ice cream.

[00:49:51]They just don't get their back. This is about two hitters here.

[00:50:02]>> Almost. That's okay. So Bennett has seen so many mini golf things along the way.

[00:50:08]Every time he's like, "We're going to play mini golf." And since this one was literally like a two-minute drive >> and we got two free games. This was our opportunity.

[00:50:18]>> You got three, Westy.

[00:50:20]>> I got a three.

[00:50:21]>> Good job.

[00:50:27]>> I'm winning right now. We'll see if I can keep my win or my lead. Oh no, Bennett's finding his groove. He just had two twos in a row and I had two threes in a row.

[00:50:44]>> You got ANOTHER TWO, WESTON.

[00:50:46]>> Two again. Hold on. I got to write down scores.

[00:50:52]A little bit tricky cuz there's a bunch of shadows out here until you like get a little bit off.

[00:50:59]OH, THAT WAS CLOSE. FUN. It's here. They like float.

[00:51:03]>> This one has a little water feature.

[00:51:06]>> The balls float instead of sink. They're not real golf balls.

[00:51:10]>> Won has had two >> twos in a row. So, he's finding his stride. Oh, three twos in a row. So, he's finding his stride.

[00:51:18]>> Okay.

[00:51:29]>> Woo. Nice.

[00:51:34]>> Go-karting sounds fun.

[00:51:36]>> Go-karting does sound fun. Okay, we're at the final hole and this then we'll add up the scores.

[00:51:46]>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[00:51:48]>> Five points.

[00:51:52]Do hard mo four.

[00:52:00]>> All right, the kids disappeared, but I'm adding up the scores right now.

[00:52:06]Bennett's in the lead with 61 and Weston had 70. I think it's going to be close because Bennett and I were kind of doing the same things.

[00:52:20]I won.

[00:52:23]Everett chose not to keep score. I won with 57.

[00:52:27]Bennett got 61 and Won got 70. Good to know I can still beat him at something cuz that kid is good at everything. All the boys are good at everything. Oh my goodness. Okay, let's get home. Get to bed. Well, friends, we had an amazing time here in South Carolina. I can hardly believe that it just like it's gone. The time just flies by and I can hardly believe it. Tomorrow's travel day. We're exhausted. Stayed up late doing some work, getting videos out for all of you. It's fun. It's exciting.

[00:53:05]But it keeps us really, really busy between school work, getting videos out, and just being parents, taking care of everybody, making sure everybody's safe and sound.

[00:53:18]There's always something to do. We love you. We're grateful for you. And we'll see you again real soon for more of this Alaska Life. Life on the road, North Carolina, here we come.