Charleston

Nancy and I visited Charleston, South Carolina, from Wednesday through Friday. We stayed at the Market Pavilion Hotel on East Bay Street (photo above).

Charleston, founded in 1670 and named for the then king of England, King Charles II, is on a peninsula formed by the Ashley River to the west and the Cooper River to the east. At the confluence of the two rivers, and protected by several large islands, is Charleston Harbor.

The Market Pavilion Hotel has a wonderful rooftop bar. The photo below is taken from there, and shows the United States Custom House directly across the street from the hotel, and behind it the Cooper River:

On the other side of the Cooper River, and indicated by the arrow, is the USS Yorktown - a World War II aircraft carrier - at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum. Years ago I visited the museum with Boy Scout Troop 39 from Jeffersonville and we spent a night on the Yorktown.

The reflections in the photo above are from the Plexiglas walls surrounding the rooftop bar.

Charleston reminds me of Boston in many ways, both historical and modern. Below is the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge across the Cooper River that reminds me of the Bunker Hill Bridge across the Charles River in Boston:

The photo below is Charleston Harbor at sunset, taken from The Battery on the southernmost tip of the peninsula: