Navigation

When Judy and I were in Charleston, navigation was not so much a matter of finding the place or thing we were looking for (witness finding the pineapple fountain while finding the ice cream shop).  It was more about finding parking.  Charleston is an old city and that makes for narrow streets, few parking lots and generally adding in extra time to find a parking facility or other place to leave the car.

But Judy seems to have a gift for finding on street parking that may rival Nate's gift for the same thing.  Even on Broad Street so I could pick up another needlepoint project.  And King Street and Tradd where we had the House and Garden Tour.  Best of all was the one that was steps from the  Huguenot Church where the concert was.  That one was so unlikely and we were so delighted that we grabbed it even though we had over half an hour before the concert and sat there talking about how we had probably just used up our luck for at least the next six months.

Apparently the gift has shifted a bit here in Beaufort, but not disappeared.  It's now concentrating on grouping everything conveniently for us.  Example: We had driven out to Hilton Head to take a look around and managed to find a restaurant right on our route that had good reviews.  The reviews were right and we had a perfect lunch on the terrace.  Checking our iPhones (what else do you do at lunch), we found a bakery/cafe that looked interesting and decided that that would be our next stop to get some goodies for breakfast next day.  I entered the address on Arrow Street and looked at the map slightly puzzled.  It was hard to see exactly what I was supposed to do next.  Changing the range revealed that the bakery was right around the corner from our current position on Archer Street.  Should have known.

Then there was yesterday when we decided on a visit to a yarn shop to get yarn for a Fiona project, a visit to check out an old synagogue, and a spa visit.  All of them were on successive blocks of Scott Street.  I do like how Beaufort seems determined to make things easy for me.  And seems to know exactly what we're looking for.