Charleston, South Carolina

We found a great  RV park not far from downtown Charleston so were able to take several trips in to see this wonderful city where the Civil war had its start with the first shot fired at Fort Sumter.
We noticed there is still some animosity towards the "north" after all of these years.
We also found out that a quite famous general during the civil war, named Christopher Gadsden, designed the flag flown during the civil war...."don"t tread on me"  it is still flown today.
My brother is Christopher Gadsden and as he has 2 sons and 4 grandsons.the name , which is not as common in Canada as in this part of the world, will live on..of course we got flags for all.

  

The cemetery at St Phillips one of many Gadsdens

 

  

 This is a spectacular bridge we were able to ride our bikes over it..it has a bike and pedestrian lane separate from  vehicular traffic.

                               

One of the gracious Charlston  homes.

Charleston harbor

The market downtown

Downtown residential home

OH, Fran does like to photograph houses

One of many beautiful churches.