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| Mosquito Meter in Congaree National Park. The park officials told us that although funny it is also very serious. |
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| Congaree National Park near Hopkins, SC |
Now, we are heading back to Nebraska to visit more with family and go on another Christmas vacation. So we always look ahead to see if there is anything we want to see that is not tooooo far out of the way. Well a days drive is never too far. We mapped it and found some good barbecue and a couple of National Parks.
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| Flooded boardwalk in Congaree National Park |
First stop, Congaree National Park. I
must admit I had never heard of Congaree and I sure didn't know South
Carolina had a national park. They do have one and it is worth
visiting if you like natural wet lands and swamps like we do. We were
both raised around areas like this with gators and mosquitos and
birds galore. Most of the trails were closed due to flooding and even
the boardwalk was not immune to nature's wrath. The interpretive
center is top notch and well worth the visit. We were also glad to
see the Mosquito Meter was at all clear.
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| 3 Meat Plate at Maurice's BBQ MmmMmm Good! |
Next stop, Barbecue! Anyone who knows
us knows that I (Chris) am a meat eater. Of course I try to balance
this, but not at a barbecue place. Jennifer kept telling me of a
great place in South Carolina to eat some good barbecue. Well we
found some at Maurices BBQ Piggie Park in Columbia, SC. It was
perfect BBQ. The brisket was juicy and tender and the hash was out of
this world good. If in Columbia I would recommend getting some of
this BBQ.
So after getting our bellies full of some good grub we were off to our next destination, The Great Smokey Mountains National Park and Pigeon Forge, TN. I was going to include that in this post, but after some consideration I decided it deserved its own post. So goodbye for now and may all your journeys be as blessed as ours. Happy Traveling.
