• Monticello, the “Portrait” on the back of the Nickel.
  • Barbara & Spring flowers
  • Slave Gardens at Monticello
  • A ranger describes slave life.
  • Thomas Jefferson "was" buried here?
    • Tour entring Monticello. No photos allowed inside.
    • Lounge of the Kings Courtyard Inn, where we stayed in Charleston.
    • Courtyard
    • Our first meal in Charleston was in a Greek diner! Pisarro comes from the Greek for “fish”. And note the name on the boat.
    • The big thing to do in Charleston is to take a horse drawn tour of the town.
      • “We used to hate you Yankees until you came to town spending your money and buying our houses.”
      • Market near our inn.
      • The tours can cover one of four areas. Ours covered the oldest part of town.
      • A classic Southern porch.
          • Classic unrestored Southern Mansion.
          • Magnolia Plantation, about 10 miles out of Charleston.
          • The only Magnolia in bloom!
            • The closest thing we saw to Magnolias.
                • Gorgeous natural gardens on the plantation.
                    • Museum showed news during the Civil War.
                    • Illustrated News during the war showing the battles of the time.
                    • We visited a former student of Barbara’s.
                            • Approaching Fort Sumter.
                                • What is left of Fort Sumter is basically a ruin, having been pummeled by both sides.
                                  • Classic civil war era cannon.
                                        • Leaving the fort.