Florida Trip, part 2: We had two added bonuses on our trip. The first was that we got to spend two nights at Cary and Randy's beautiful house on Kiawah Island, SC. It was not only a beautiful house, but we got to spend a great day exploring Kiawah and the surroundings. It was a perfect break in the middle of the long drive home.
We also discovered what we judged to be the best barbeque / southern home cookin' joint on the planet. It's called the Lone Star, it's in Santee, SC, and we liked it so much on the way down that we stopped again on our way home!

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We just returned from a trip to Sanibel Island, Florida to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. I looked into renting or chartering a sailboat while I was there, but the water on what we'd call the "sound side" of the island is just too shallow for any kind of keel, and there were no places on the gulf side. Even without sailing, it was a great place to spend 12 days in the Winter! We had...

uncrowded beaches with temperatures around 80 every day...

lots of shelling (although this one was live and we had to send him back home)...
tons of wildlife (an anhinga here)...
beautiful sunsets...
and lots of good rum!

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