BBQ, Bridges and Chilly Milk

Matt had to work this morning, poor guy, so we got a late-ish start on our sightseeing. 

First up was lunch at Southside Smokehouse in Landrum. 

Probably the best barbecue we’ve had on our trip so far and my shrimp po’boy was excellent. 

D and Cousin It

S. Carolina has one remaining covered bridge 

and since it’s only 25 minutes from the new house of course we had to go find it. 

Campbell’s Covered Bridge (here) was built from 1909 - 1911 and rebuilt twice, the last time about 1992. 

It’s about 38’ long, 12’ wide and set in a lovely little park along Beaverdam Creek. 

The bridge construction is the relatively rare Howe Truss (here), a four-span design invented by William Howe in 1840. It uses vertical iron rods and diagonal timbers.

 Last photo is the underside of the bridge flooring

Donovan was initially not a fan of this side trip - 

he wanted chilly milk* right.now. - 

but he had a lot of fun running along the creek and exploring. 

 The remains of the old homestead and mill

We even found some great sparkly rocks (mica?) along the path. 

And yes, he got his chilly milk. We found a great small shop in Inman - Averies’s Ice Cream Shoppe - serving Hershey’s ice cream along with baked treats (banana pudding for Matt) and packaged bake-at-home dinners. So good! 

* Donovan said “ice cream” soooooooooo many times, mom and dad started (joke-seriously) taking points away every time he said the IC word. Lose too many points and no treats for D! So smart kid that he is, he got around the prohibition by calling it ‘chilly milk’. I’m betting this will be the start of a funny, long running, family joke.