{"id":5895,"date":"2020-11-27T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-28T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:21:57","slug":"great-drive-to-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5895","title":{"rendered":"Great Drive to South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6631\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6631 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GregCooking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GregCooking.jpg 450w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GregCooking-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>We left Home at 7:30 AM on Monday 11\/23 and had clear dry weather all the way to Weaverville, NC, about a 550 mile drive. We got to a Walmart\u00a0 by 4:30 PM and had some leftover Mac &amp; Cheese. After a good nights sleep we left at &amp;:30 AM and got to our fiends Greg &amp; Sandy Lewis by 10AM. The weather was still clear and dry but a cool morning.<\/p>\n<p>Greg loves to cook in their beautiful kitchen and we stayed two nights. We really enjoyed the two dinners he cooked for us.<\/p>\n<p>We had lots of fun remembering old kayaking, hiking, biking and camping trips.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was cool but dry so we took a short hike near his house on a steep trail called the Granite Dome Trail. It was just the right length for Peggy and their two dogs, Asia and Lilly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6635\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6635\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6635\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/PeggySandyFireplace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/PeggySandyFireplace.jpg 900w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/PeggySandyFireplace-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/PeggySandyFireplace-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peggy enjoyed resting by their fireplace when we returned. Greg &amp; Sandy were great hosts.<\/p>\n<p>We had a heavy rain on Wednesday night but by the time we left on Thanksgiving morning the weather had cleared and temperatures warmed to above 70<sup>o<\/sup>F later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>We got to Augusta, GA by noon and drove right to the Savannah River Locks and canal trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Home at 7:30 AM on Monday 11\/23 and had clear dry weather all the way to Weaverville, NC, about a 550 mile drive. We got to a Walmart\u00a0 by 4:30 PM and had some leftover Mac &amp; Cheese. After a good nights sleep we left at &amp;:30 AM and got to our fiends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Drive to South Carolina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}