Charleston, South Carolina is a very beautiful place, probably the most beautiful city I've visited so far. The weather was gorgeous the whole time I was there, which helped. I added an extra day to my stay after the first day so I'd have more time to explore, making it three places in a row I've stayed an additional day at. On my first evening there I was waiting out the front of the hostel on the wooden porch for them to open the check-in and I met two nice Sc...

I do not believe in destiny, or fate. Amazing coincidences are just that. We only attribute additional value to them because they are happening to us at the time. As humans we are unable to comprehend the millions of other times that the coincidence didn't manage to happen to all the billions of the people on the planet. Having said all that, what happened was pretty coincidental! I left Virginia Beach at night, getting a long 12 hour bus ride through the night ...

Life is a continuous learning exercise. You can learn from what other's do but the lessons that stick best are those learned from your own mistakes. During my time in Virginia Beach, Virginia I learned not to walk a mile in a torrential downpour. In my defense it didn't seem that bad as I set out from the bus station to the hostel. About seven minutes later I was regretting it as I had found that the first street I had to go down had no sidewalk for half its leng...

It was another early start from Charleston at 5:45am to catch the bus out. I wasn't very sorry to leave. I had to change buses twice to get to Williamsburg, Virginia. I met some interesting people on the journey though. The first one was a truck driver who was making his way to Dover, Delaware to pick up a truck at 2:30am when he got there and he was hoping they left it outside the gates. The second was a college student who was studying criminal justice at a Vir...

With the good comes the bad, with the fun and interesting comes the profoundly dull. Welcome to Charleston, West Virginia, the largest city in the state. I picked it for two reasons. Firstly, because I needed a place to stop in West Virginia to tick off the state. Secondly, it was a large town on the Greyhound bus route that wouldn't put me out of the way to continue on to Virginia. Finally I decided that as it was quite a cheap nice-looking hotel (from its websi...