We stayed with Jo and Tom (and Archie, the standard poodle) in their lovely home on the beach.
The first night, we went to Long Island Cafe and had a wonderful fish dinner. (Long Island was the original name of the Isle of Palms, nothing to do with Long Island, New York.)
Jo made a wonderful breakfast both mornings of poached eggs on oatmeal that she makes ahead of time into patties which are then fried. We will definitely be adding them to our repertoire of recipes.
On the 8th, Tom went out to John's Island. We took a lovely beach walk. A highlight was a flock of bluebirds which perched nicely enough and long enough for us to identify them conclusively, always a treat for us. Then we toured both Sullivan's Island and the Isle of Palms stopping on the marshy side and the ocean side. It was a lazy, wonderful day.
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| Mark, Tom and Jo at Long Island Cafe |
The second night we had a wonderful meal at 167 Raw, owned by Jesse Sandole, one of our former middle school students. It was just written up as one of the 10 places to visit in Charleston by the New York Times. It is small and does not take reservations, but we pulled strings with Jesse's mom, Jill and we were ushered right in. Jesse was there to see us and treated us to a complimentary dish of oysters. The food was amazingly good. Jo and Mark had tuna poke which was probably the highlight. Mark and Tom had tuna burgers which they really enjoyed. Barbara and Jo had delicious fish tacos and Barbara also had a haddock ceviche. We all pronounced it an extraordinary meal and Jo and Tom plan to return. Quite amazingly, there were two other former Nantucket students there that night, too. In such a small place, it was quite a coincidence.
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| Mark, Jo, Tom, Jesse at 167 Raw |
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| Robert Anderson, Corinna Ramirez at 167 Raw |
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Mark and Jesse |
Mostly the four of us talked, talked, talked about politics. It was very good group therapy, I think, for all of us.
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