Folly Favorites: Sites

I promise, I do more than eat on vacation.  Here are a few of my favorite sites, stores, etc. from the trip last week!

Pineapple Fountain (Charleston)

Historic District (Charleston)

King Street (Charleston)

(image via my dad)

Shop 'til you drop on King Street!

Palm Avenue (Charleston)

A Lilly Pulitzer store on King Street=heaven.  

Morris Island Light (Folly Beach)

If you drive (or ride a bike like Wyatt and I did) to one end of the Folly, there is a walking path out to a beach where you can see this lighthouse.  Definitely recommend this short little walk.  The beach on that end of the island is almost deserted.  It was amazing to ride the bikes along.  If you look up at the picture above, you can see the Ravenel bridge in the distance.  Amazing.

Angel Oak (Johns Island)

This massive and very old tree is a sight to see.  It's simply amazing how big this tree is.  

Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge (connecting Charleston with Mt. Pleasant)

Palmetto Brewing (Charleston)

Stop by to sample some of their brews and take a brewery tour!

Folly Boat (Folly Beach)

The Folly Boat is a boat that washed ashore during Hurricane Hugo.  Nobody claimed it.  Somewhere along the way, people began to paint messages and pictures on the boat.  This was the boat on our way out to head home in honor of the horrific events at Charlie Hebdo in Paris just days before.

Family Vacation 2015

The annual trip after Christmas took on a very different look this year.  We went to Charleston, South Carolina for a week with my parents and sister instead of Destin.  Obviously, I was thrilled that we got to stay in a house on Folly Beach!  Charleston is my favorite city and even though we just visited over the summer, I was ready to go back.

Wyatt and I picked up Allison and three of us drove down to meet my parents.  Our first meal down there was Taco Boy which happened to be just a couple minutes from our house and within walking distance.  We definitely tried it more than once because it was delicious.  You could say we're taco connoisseurs (I've been known to make fish tacos and tacos al pastor at home).  The first day we were in Charleston, we ate lunch at the Tattooed Moose and walked around the historic district.  We ended the afternoon with a carriage tour of the city.

The next day we took the gang to see the Angle Oak tree and then had lunch downtown at Sticky Fingers before doing some shopping on King Street.  I got a couple of steals at the Lilly Pulitzer store, Palm Avenue!

The next day, we spent some time on the beach in the morning.  That afternoon Wyatt and I rented bikes and rode to the other end of the island to go see the Morris Island Light.  That afternoon was my favorite part of the whole trip.  Altogether we rode 7 or 8 miles but it was so relaxing and great to see the island like that.

We went downtown one day to see the Pineapple Fountain and then we went to Cypress Gardens but it was pretty chilly so we weren't out walking around them too long.  On the coldest day of the trip (it was in the 30s!), Wyatt and I went down town to have lunch at Minero.  It was so good!  I highly recommend it to any who like Mexican street food.  After that, Wyatt put up with me shopping in a couple more places (because he's the best boyfriend) and I actually found what we Lilly lovers like to refer as our 'holy grail' pieces at a consignment store.  I found Lucky Charms capris!  That night we got dressed up for a nice dinner at Husk.  Wyatt has loved watching Chef Sean Brock on season 2 of Mind of a Chef so we had to try his restaurant!

On our last day, we drove over the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge and drove out to Isle of Palms.  We toured and tasted at the Palmetto Brewery in Charleston and that night Wyatt and I went back for dinner at Minero and a drink at Husk.  

Summer Vacation 2014: Part 2

After Savannah, we drove over to Charleston for the remainder of the week/vacation.  Instead of taking the interstates, we opted for highways off the beating path.  On our way in, we stopped to check out the Angel Oak and boy am I glad we did.  The Live Oak is massive and just amazing to see.  

After the Angel Oak, we drove over to Mt. Pleasant to check into our rental.  We used Airbnb to rent an apartment.  We stayed in a place right on Shem creek!  It had this amazing dock right out to the creek.  We loved the location and the owner was the nicest person.  We enjoyed watching sunset over the marsh with her on her back porch one evening.  Of course I made Wyatt go to Sticky Fingers on our first night in town.  It's a nostalgic favorite of mine.  

We walked around the historic district in Charleston.  I seriously love that place so much.  So much history and beauty that I can walk around the streets for hours just admiring it all and not get bored.  We had rain one day so we decided to drive over to Folly Beach for lunch and to try to see the Morris Island Light.  Unfortunately about three quarters of the way on the path to the beach (which is down an old road that is no longer traveled by cars), it began to pour on us.  We made it to beach's edge, saw the lighthouse for a second, and darted back to car.  

We had so many good eats on this trip.  We found this funky little dive bar, the Tattooed Moose, thanks to the guestbook in our apartment.  It was so delicious.  We also tried a new place to us, Prohibition, for our last meal there.  Oh my goodness, was it good.  We started with a duck quesadilla and then I got a Carolina Roll (blue crab and shrimp roll topped with fried oysters).  We tried Rita's on Folly Beach per the suggestion of one of my favorite bloggers, Megan from Holy City Chic.  I had the Southbound burger....a burger with pimento cheese!  We also made sure to eat at Hyman's Seafood.