Weather is easing today. Rather than going to see another movie, some sightseeing was on the agenda.
We headed off this morning to Beaufort, SC. Once a bustling tourist town and one of the richest towns in America's hay day. It has sucummed to the hard times of todays economy. Many of the once busy tourist shops are now closed and empty. A sad sight to see. A town with a significant historic value is now a ghost town. We did a horse-drawn carriage tour. Very interesting to hear about the history and wealth of the era gone by, but with today's economy many of the homes that were valued over a million dollars aren't even worth half these days. If things don't pick up, I can see this town dropping off the map!
After the carriage tour there really wasn't much left to do. So we decided to head back to Hilton Head for lunch and see what the weather had installed for us.
Cloudy, but warm. We had lunch and headed down stairs for some serious competitive chess.
I was not up to caliber, and had to suffer listening to Dave think that he was more awesome than he really is!
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