Day 22 - Daytona to Charleston, the nice town

Day 22. We started out in the morning by walking across the street to the beach. We could not really leave Daytona Beach without seeing the actual beach. Great beach by the way, but we had to get going. Our goal for the day was the city of Charleston, a town barely marked at our map. Charleston was only picket from the convenient driving distance, none of us had heard of the town before. On the way we had a stop a small airplane-graveyard. A detour Martin discovered by coincidence brought us into a wildlife area on a small lonely gravel road. Alone in a beautiful forest with scattered green ponds, we saw wild alligators, armadillos, deer, birds of all kind and color and a lot of mosquitos. We arrived Charleston located at the coast nearly 200 miles north of Daytona in the afternoon. Finding all cheap motels too far outside town, we set our GPS on downtown Charleston. When we got there we saw this old, stylish, beautiful hotel with men in suits holding the door open for people walking in and out. To expensive for us we all thought, but there in no damage in asking for a price. 109$ divided at the three of us a night. We booked a room for one night. Only me and Martin was hungry, so we went to find some food. There was a lot of restaurants to choose from, but we came over this really nice italian one. The food was incredible tasty, and the wine was just as good as the food. For anyone going to Charleston in the future, check out Il Cortile Delre! (193-A King Street). On our way back to the hotel we managed to get lost believe it or not. That was the best thing that could happen! This city is like noting we've ever seen before. You will have a hard time finding a ugly house or building in downtown Charleston. Even the back alleys was beautiful, narrow with threes and genuine gas lanterns! Stay tuned for pictures on flickr.com.

FLICKR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/66819215@N00/

By the way: Guess one time what took off from Cape Canaveral today?

Yep! That right! :- /

Want to see a video of that? Go here: 3-2-1, Liftoff!

//Lars