PSA/Days 20-21

This will mark a new style and technique to formatting the blog and its entries. Finally sitting in a comfortable place, in a temporarily undisclosed location, I am realizing the current methodology is terribly inefficient and unfeasible at best. The reason you are experiencing delays as a reader is the result of several impacting factors. These inconsistencies include the non-ubiquitous nature of Wi-Fi, the drastic variability in our daily activities, an utter lack of energy (our fault, not yours) when it comes to writing. From now forward days will be combined and important stories will be told because we realize you don’t care what we are having for breakfast everyday. This will also allow us to upload more pictures which we all know is the true reason you have chosen to visit this site. Enjoy the adjustments as we work on our punctuality.

The drive from our temporary residence in Orlando to Savannah, GA is a bit longer than we had originally planned. We spend most of the day alternating driving duty, jealous that the passenger is napping. Savannah is beautiful once you get downtown. Cool layout to a city but the bottom line was that all our couch-surfing requests have proved futile and all the state parks in the area have closed their gates. After less than two hours of picture taking we are already back in the car. Charleston, SC is out next target. Yes, we did realize that changing cities does not change our sleeping situation but we did not actively consider it. We hit some weather on the way, this includes lightning. Driving down a two lane highway with sparse traffic, a bolt of lightning strikes the earth just off the dirt shoulder next to the opposite lane and we freak. One of the loudest surprises we have eve endured. We plan to sleep in Forest Service campground about 35 miles outside Charleston. It is agreed that we cannot spend the money on a hotel.

Well the rain did stop but it has laid copious amounts of fog all throughout these forest roadways. Needless to say, these alleged campgrounds never did show themselves so we had take a sketchy road to another shady dirt road, pull over, and just camp by the car. Scary at first but it turns out to be beautiful in the morning. Score.

Mission of the day: Laundry. First time since Austin, TX. Some manipulative Korean woman is charging us infinity quarters to wash our clothes. Whatever, just do it so we can go see the city. Charleston is awesome! We are instantly surrounded by positive vibes, beautiful scenery, and even friendly/attractive people. The day turned out to be a success even though most of the touristy and historical destinations were closed by the time we got to them. We have the mysterious Korean woman’s ancient cement truck tumblers/washing machines to thank for that. But seriously, go to Charleston, South Carolina. It is night time already but with a little bit more research we were able to find the very primitive camp site we were looking the previous night. Not before a series of genius ideas and pit stops resulting in some fresh bread for our usual rice and beans dinner and of course a DVD to watch on the laptop while in the middle of the woods. Yes, it took us three weeks to figure out how to plug a laptop into the car and rent a DVD. We’ve got everything we need, we really are happy campers.