Since Stephen is now self-employed, we both technically have Fridays off. So today we checked out the property he's considering leasing for the car dealership. While it's more of a shell than a real building, it has the essentials and now my mind has been racing about what we can do to spruce this place up into a real business. I think it will do!

After we came home for a bit, took a little nap and a few other things, we headed back out this evening for a date. My sweet hubby had messaged me on Facebook asking if I'd go on a date with him this Friday, so he had all the details planned.

He took me to the tiny town of Peak, SC--which if you peak for just a second you've seen it all. We found part of the Palmetto trail that is a state project trying to stretch one walking path across the entire state and then I think beyond.

So one portion we walked were old train tracks converted into a walking path. It crossed over some small streams, and then took you deep into the forest. Stephen managed to find another portion of the trail you could enter on that looked interesting, so we drove 6 minutes and found the start of this trail on the edge of the Broad River.

It was massive. Here they'd converted the pony truss bridge that carried the train across the river into a walking path. We walked through a few camp sites getting set up for the weekend, smelling hot dogs roasting over a fire. We walked the entire span of the bridge seeing old ruins down in the shallow river waters from where the bridge had been burned down at one point during the Civil War. There were people fishing in kayaks on the river, and the weather was perfect. The whole area was beautiful.

After our walk, we worked up a hunger, and Stephen took us to Chapin to enjoy J. Richards Grill and Bar. Delicious food. Small town Copper River Grill almost.