The plan was for Charles to start up the engine at about 3 am. I was supposed to stay asleep. Not gonna happen. We need to turn over a switch under our mattress not to mention the roar of engine so I got up too. We headed to Cape Charles to go under the bridge and out into the Ocean. We had a great weather window. It was going to be pretty calm. We had been calling our friend Blaine on the Sat phone to hear about Passage Weather reports and he had heard of storm coming up the coast and suggested we go inside when we could.
We arrived at Charleston Maritime Center Charleston SC Oct 24th at 11:30 am. Our friends Debi and Carl were already there from the day before.
My first order of business was to get the knots out of my hair!. When we go offshore for a few days my hair gets tangled worst than a bee hive. No matter what I do I have to spend time taking the knots out. Hats, head bands, and hair ties still leave me with knots.
Charleston is a wonderful city. They have public buses and a more extended bus system. I wanted to get to West Marine so I took the city trolley # 210 toward the visitor's center. Then walked two blocks to in front of Huges Lumber& Bldg Supply ,82 Mary Street at King where the bus terminal for other outside the city buses converge. They have electrical supplies so you don't have to go all the way to West Marine. But if you must take the #30 bus out to the West Marine, if you continue on the route it will take you to the Citadel Mall which has every store known to man.
We shopped at Harris Teeter which is open 24 hours and has a full supply of butcher meats and other goodies down to beer.
*****8
Back outside to get to Florida in three or four days so we hope.....
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