Hatfield Follies
Taking the Fam to Folly Beach
20.10.2018 - 22.10.2018
Those of you that have been with me a long time remember the blue bucket. Who can forget the BLUE BUCKET?
For those who don't know, the blue bucket was what we used, quite inelegantly, to get my mother-in-law in and out of a Jeep on a trip to St. John back in 2005. We took it everywhere and used it as a step to propel her into the vehicle. (I never claimed to be a great daughter-in-law, folks....)
Fast forward 15 years and you can only imagine how the mobility issues have deteriorated, but her love for travel has not.
Her last trip, and I don't mean most recent...I mean LAST....was in 2014. I don't mean she died. She is alive and well, but travel has simply become too challenging for her. It's heartbreaking to see someone you love lose their ability to do something they love, so we still try to take her where we can.
Last fall, knowing her traveling days were limited due to her extreme mobility issues, we asked where she wanted to go. It had to be somewhere Matt could fly her to, because commercial travel has become an impossibility.
She said Charleston. On the beach.
Jo wanted to see Charleston, but mostly wanted her toes in the sand one more time. We decided to take the clan to Folly Beach.
I had to find a house ON THE BEACH.....not over the dunes, not down a zillions steps, not across a walkway...ON THE BEACH. We had to be able to get her just a few steps from the house into the sweet, soft sand.
This trip wasn't about diving into Charleston's culinary scene. We barely touched it. It wasn't about enjoying the area's wonderful shopping. We didn't enter a single store. It wasn't even about beaching it. We barely beached.
It was simply spending time as a family in a place someone we loved wanted to see. It was about letting her eat some seafood, dig her toes into the sand. and sit and listen to the waves.
So that's what we did.
It was simple. It was sweet. It was just two days and it was perfect for her.
And we didn't even need the blue bucket.
Posted by vicki_h 07:56 Archived in USA Tagged beach south_carolina charleston folly_beach Comments (1)
