CHARLESTON, SC

If you ever have the opportunity to visit Charleston don't miss it.

A city of rich history with spectacular homes and gardens.

Many homes are built narrow and long. This affords the owner to have a side porch facing the harbor breezes.

Before air conditioning people slept on the porches covered in mosquito netting.

Notice the home in the picture above has front porches, because this one faces the harbor.

Touring this gracious southern city you'll notice many steeples. Churches were very much a part of the resident's lives.

They were well constructed out of stone, and brick with intricate, ornamental ironwork.

In fact most of them weathered Hurricane Hugo with minimal damage.

Imagine riding in an open air, canopied buggy pulled by a loping horse around the quiet streets, a hundred years ago.

Can you hear the cadence of clip, clopping hooves on the pavement? Can you smell the fragrant magnolia and jasmine? Can you see the women in their hoop skirted dresses and the gentlemen in there waistcoats and top hats?