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Southeastern US Day 6: Farewell, Wilmington; Hello, Charleston

23 March 2023 • 275 km / 171 mi (map)

Today, I left Wilmington and headed down to Charleston where I connected with Lisa. We’ll be in Charleston for the next several days. In both cities, I enjoyed the historic architecture.

(P.S. No travel blog for Day 5. I was on a work-related trip to the Raleigh area and the weather did not encourage much photography.)

Here are a few photos from a walk around Wilmington before I left this morning:

Wilmington, North Carolina
Close-up of white azalea blossoms covered in raindrops, their long slender stamens and pale anthers extending from the throat, set against a backdrop of blurred green foliage.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina
A weathered red-brick wall with small tufts of green grass and ferns sprouting from its mortar joints, topped by a large azalea shrub covered in white blossoms and green leaves.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Bright pink azaleas spill over a weathered brick and stucco garden wall beside a cobblestone alley, with fallen blossoms scattered on the wet stones. Behind the wall stand historic homes, including a blue-gray Victorian with a columned porch and a tan stucco house with arched openings.
Wilmington, North Carolina
A two-story navy blue Victorian house with ornate white trim, a wraparound front porch with turned columns, and shuttered windows, flanked by blooming pink azaleas and a matching blue detached garage. An American flag hangs by the entrance, a teal Queen Anne turret rises next door, and a concrete driveway and sidewalk lead past the lawn under an overcast morning sky.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina

And a few photos from a walk around Charleston this evening:

Charleston, South Carolina
A quiet residential sidewalk running alongside an old weathered brick wall topped with ferns, with a large sprawling live oak tree overhanging the walkway and cars parked along the street to the right. In the foreground a red-and-white “Street Sweeping No Parking” sign is mounted on a wooden utility pole, lit by late afternoon sun.
Charleston, South Carolina
A two-story light blue clapboard house in Charleston with white trim, a mint-green front door numbered 58 reached by steps with black railings, and sage-green window shutters. A double-decker white porch with turned columns and decorative balustrades wraps the left side, and green foliage and a flower-filled window box frame the facade.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
A wide masonry staircase and its side walls completely covered in green creeping fig vine, leading up to the front porch of a pale yellow historic house numbered 67. The porch has white turned columns, a decorative balustrade, gas lanterns flanking a light-colored front door, topiary shrubs, and a hanging fern, with a red brick walkway in the foreground bathed in late-afternoon sun.
Charleston, South Carolina
A large sprawling live oak tree draped with Spanish moss dominates a quiet residential street, its branches spreading over a two-story pale-colored Southern house with double porches behind a white picket fence. A red street-sign and residential parking permit sign stand at the curb in the late-afternoon light, with palms and greenery lining the cracked asphalt road.
Charleston, South Carolina
A massive live oak with a broad trunk and long, low, sprawling limbs draped in resurrection fern spreads over a bare dirt clearing in a park. A curved gravel path leads off to the left toward a residential street with parked cars and houses, and a small children’s slide sits under the tree’s canopy in the background.
Charleston, South Carolina
Four tall white Corinthian columns standing on a raised stone base in a park, viewed at dusk from the end of a brick walkway, with leafy trees surrounding them under a pale blue evening sky.
Cannon Park, Charleston, South Carolina

Wilmington, North Carolina, to Charleston, South Carolina · 275 km / 171 mi
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