We put the turkey in the oven on slow cook and headed off to the beach for a look at Fort Moultrie,
Sullivan Island and Breach Inlet: not your average Thanksgiving morning for us! The bird was delicious and the company good and we thought of everyone spread out worldwide and hoped your gathering was equally rewarding.
We took another horse tour of Charleston with John, and saw a lot of buildings and streets we hadn’t already seen. One neighborhood houses what were the French, German, Hibernian and Scots Social Clubs, for which read drinking establishments. They met on different evenings, starting on Monday but it was unclear if one could be a member of all four. The guide summed up another view of Charleston as an historic town with a drinking problem.
We showed John a couple more of the plantations, passing some of the local businesses (concealed weapons courses, and boiled peanuts) 
and went to Folly Beach for lunch 
and drove up to the northern tip to see the lighthouse and the view over to the southern tip of Sullivan’s Island and Fort Moultrie. 
One of the discoveries of the stay was the town of Mount Pleasant. It first appears to be just a bedroom community of Charleston but turns out to have some lovely old houses and districts and some well-done access via boardwalks and old bridge causeways to marshlands and waterfront.
. It also offers departures for visits to Fort Sumter (well worth it) and the option to visit the Yorktown. 
There is a great deal of history to be seen in this area but unless you’re devoted only to that, it’s also rewarding to get out and visit the parks, road ends, beaches, marshes and other natural areas, which abound.
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