Amy's New Travel Blog

Check out Amy Welborn's new travel blog, Booked:

Booked came about this way.

I was sitting around a couple of months ago – early 2011- mulling over future writing projects, actual and proposed. I wasn’t really jazzed by any of them, and spent a few minutes whining to myself…what I really want to do is travel writing. But that can’t happen because…

But wait….why not?

So the idea for Booked was born. Because this is the Internet and I can write about anything I please, right?

Charlotte Was Both will still exist and I will still post there – about books, movies, faith. But I’m going to concentrate more of my energies into travel writing. Readers have enjoyed my travel-related posts in the past so maybe this is a season of just going with that for a while. I am thinking that I can spend a few years seeing things and telling people about those things in interesting and occasionally amusing ways – right?

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Some Recommendations Based On Recent Travels

Our family just got back a couple of days ago from a 2-week trip visiting relatives in South Carolina and Virginia. Below are some recommendations based on activities we did during our travels (some of which we had never done before and some of which we had done previously):

Huntington Beach State Park near Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Early evening pontooning on the Waccamaw River in Conway, South Carolina

Tubing and/or canoing on the James River near Scottsville, Virginia

Jamestown Settlement in Jamestown, Virginia (I've previously blogged about visiting Jamestown here)

Buying books from the bargain tables (there's one for kids books and one for adult - not THAT sort of "adult" - books) at the Colonial Williamsburg Visitors Center bookstore

Dining at Christiana Campbell's Tavern, followed by "Gambols" at Chowning's Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia

The Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Virginia