Sunday, May 11, 2014

Columbia, South Carolina

Today started out a little rough.  We headed from LaGrange, Georgia to Stone Mountain Village to find the start box for the Stone Mountain walk in a bakery.  Unfortunately, the bakery was closed due to a son's graduation in Florida.  Hm.  Well, these things happen occasionally.  We went on to Stone Mountain anyway and looked around.  The South still mourns the Confederacy there. Ray an I both have been here before, but now it's considerably built up as a tourist attraction.  It's a great place for kids and is really set up for them.  There's a laser light show on the mountain at night.  We didn't stay.
Stone Mountain

We pushed on to Columbia, South Carolina.  While we drove, I checked out hotels and restaurants on TripAdvisor and RoadNinja.  By the time we checked in, we were able to go start the walk at a downtown hotel, stopping along the way at the Carolina Ale House for dinner.  We had a lovely after dinner walk (finished the volkswalk) along the Congaree River.  Very nice, if a lot humid and quite warm.



Seven states down, two to go.

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