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Fired Up Awesome.” That’s how my ramble partner, the fabulous tween Olive Gardner, described a recent Saturday scoot-about to the North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum. |
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Trade Secret Part of me wants to keep secret spaces secret, but my grandmother always says to give away what I love, so I’m entrusting fellow ramblers with one of my best-kept. |
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In Transit When I was 11, my mom sent me on the first of many “on-my-own” vacations to Copenhagen to summer with my grandparents. |
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Vertical Horizon Going to great heights at James Island County Park's climbing wall |
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Urban Cowgirl I never outgrew my girlhood love of horses and count my up-to-now trip of a lifetime as the time I traded my English riding hat for a five-gallon number |
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Harboring History I have climbed up a Mayan temple, walked through countless castles, laid my hands on the boulders of ancient Viking tombs. |
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Blades of Glory The last time I ice-skated, really ice-skated, I was with my then-BFF Rebecca McCullers, and we were trying our best not to fall in front of the boys while having our own frosty dance party to Madonna |
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Out-of-the-Box Outing Let’s face it, as a gal who’s competitively shopping for the best deal on clipboards (a Christmas request from my big sis), I’m broke. |
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Sitting Bull As I loaded into the small, weathered boat operated by Coastal Expeditions, one of my fellow passengers made a feeble ha-ha about a “three-hour tour” |
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Classic Movie Night Until this year, the last time I had been to a drive-in was in high school to screen two then-new releases: The Serpent and the Rainbow and Hellraiser. |
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