Tuesday, April 16

The morning dawned clear and 16.8C (61.5F), and by the time we were packed up and on the road at 10:30 it was 24C (75F).

At 12:30 we stopped for a lunch break in a K-Mart parking lot in Charleston.

Crossing the Cooper River on the Ravenel bridge was an impressive experience.
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, also known as the New Cooper River Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The eight lane bridge satisfied the capacity of U.S. Route 17 when it opened in 2005 to replace two obsolete cantilever truss bridges. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. The bridge consists of two diamond-shaped towers, each soaring to a height of 575 feet (175 m). The total length of the structure is 13,200 feet (4.0 km), with the main span stretching 1,546 feet (471 m) between the towers. 128 individual cables anchored to the inside of the diamond towers suspend the deck 186 feet (57 m) above the river.

We entered North Carolina at 4:00 and arrived at the Wishing Well campground, which is small (15 sites), clean and quiet with full hookups but no Wi-Fi. It is a very pleasant 23.5C (74F).