Monday, April 20, 2026

T Stands for I'm Back Home

     Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And hello to everyone who stops by for T at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

     This past weekend my husband and I took off on an adventure. Originally we had scheduled my daughter to dog and house sit for a week. We had to book her in back in December because she has to do some traveling around Massachusetts for her job, and some parts of Massachusetts are just too far for her to travel to and get back to our house without leaving the dogs for way too many hours. The reason we had to schedule so early is she needed to be able to leave her calendar clear.

  However, due to several different reasons, we decided to just head out for a long weekend instead of a week. A weekend isn't a whole lot of time, so after deciding we didn't want to go on a semi-local road trip, we concluded that wherever we went we wanted a short and direct flight. We also decided we were not going to fly out of Logan International Airport in Boston because that's a whole other level of time consumption. We have a couple budget airlines that only fly 2 days a week in other local airports, so we decided to try out Breeze from Manchester (NH) and fly to Charleston, South Carolina. (We liked flying Breeze. We’d fly them again!) They fly this route on Fridays and Mondays, so that made it perfect for a weekend get away.

   I went to Charleston 3 years ago, and I really liked the city. When I went then I was with a friend, and she and I did things my husband has no interest in. So even though I didn't go to a new place, I did a lot of new things and just did some more exploring. We also took a little road trip out of the city and visited a new (to both the hubby and myself) national park. 

  I haven't  had a chance to go through most of my photos yet,  since I'm posting this Monday  evening. We had an early morning flight that left Charleston this morning at 7 AM. We watched the sun rise as the plane taxied to the runway.



    It was a very early morning since we needed to get to the airport around 5 AM. We had received a text from the airline that they expected long security lines and so we took their advice. Luckily it's only around a 2 hour flight, and once we got into Manchester we stopped for breakfast (whoops, forgot to take a photo)  and then were still home before noon. After we unloaded the car the hubby and I both took  nice long naps. 😉
  
   Whoops, Google decided to publish this when I hit save, so hopefully no one will read this until I am finished with it. 😉 And if you get here and the post ends, please refresh to get the whole post.

   Anyhow, I need a drink for T day, and I did remember to snap a photo of a cup of tea I had on the plane this morning while I was reading my latest mystery.


     And here is my drink for T day this week.

    That's it for me. I'll have more trip photos in some later posts. Have a super T day and start to this new week.


  






  

 

19 comments:

Tom said...

...I hope that you had a great time.

Christine said...

Sounds like a great place to visit

DVArtist said...

How nice to get an airline like Breeze. I know you had a good time.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

It's always great to get away for a weekend and shake the dust of daily living off your feet!

Angie's Recipes said...

Bet that you had two had a great time! Look forward to the photos :-))

Iris Flavia said...

LOL I did hit F5 for just in case ;-) Lovely morning pic and yippee for a long weekend out and about.
Massachusetts always makes me laugh.
We had a comedian, Loriot and in the 1980´s... a show: the Mom from Massachusetts sent a piano as present and the Son aka now Dad wants to have the arrival on video - which was new. Video, oh, wow!
A scene was set up and the Wife had to eat a piece of cake whilst they performed a thank you.
They re-took the scene again and again, trying to say "Massachusetts".
At one point one kid says, "I feel sick." and the Wife later, "I don´t like any more cake!"
The men delivering the piano mix up the city and the family´s name... have a great T-Day, hugs and thank you for the memory. One day I really want to visit your country.

Shari Burke said...

Glad you had a nice trip! You had an early morning, but you got home early too, which is great!

Mae Travels said...

I hope your kindle (in the photo) isn't one of the ones that amazon is discontinuing to support! Your trip sounds great. I love quick and easy visits to interesting places.

CJ Kennedy said...

Can't wait to see more pictures and hear more details. Stay warm, but at least it's sunny. Happy T Day

Lisca said...

That sounds like a great weekend away. I've just looked it up on the map. It's a fair while away. I'm looking forward to seeing the photos.
What are you reading?
Happy T-Day,
Lisca

Jeanie said...

Looking forward to part 2! I've only been to Charleston once and only for a few hours so can't wait to see what I missed!

Mary Kirkland said...

What a beautiful sunrise.

Mia said...

I am glad you had a great weekend away, Erika. And I love the sunrises photos. Hugs, my friend.

brenda said...

Pleased you had a good weekend break Erika. Seeing you taking an internal flight reminds me just how huge your Country is compared with the UK where we get everywhere by road. I always recall a holiday in Florida, sitting in a hot tub after the flight, we had flown nine hours, so had the chap I was speaking to, but within the US.

B x

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

Thanks, Erika, for the information on Breeze airlines and these excursions from the Manchester airport. The getaway weekend to Charleston, SC, sounded like fun even if a bit too short. It’s something we may consider, but not in summer months as the hot weather would be a deterrent. It’s why we did the recent Mississippi River cruise in April😏

Aimeslee Winans said...

Glad you had a good time! xoxo

DeniseinVA said...

A fascinating start to your journey and I'm looking forward to more.

Veronica Lee said...

I’m glad you had such a lovely weekend away, Erika.
Your sunrise photos are breathtaking--such a peaceful way to start the day.

Veronica Lee said...

I’m glad you had such a lovely weekend away, Erika.
Your sunrise photos are breathtaking--such a peaceful way to start the day.