December 5, 2009. Day 139 Sumter SC.

On Saturday, December 5, we left Columbia SC, after spending a couple hours at the great Flea Market they have right there at the campground. Kevin and Kathleen both love to go to Flea Markets. This day we moved from Columbia to Charleston and on the way we drove through Sumter SC, a town Kevin lived in from 1965-1968. He had not been back to the house there since they moved away. In fact, no one in his family has seen their house since then either. It only took an hour to get there and we found it with no problem. The house, although small, especially since 7 kids and parents all lived in it, looked really good. While sitting there in front of the house a man from two doors down came out to talk to us. His name is Mr. Fulcnham. He was an eighty something year old man who had been in WWII. He spent some time telling us about the neighborhood and then about his time in the war. He had gone ashore at Omaha on D-Day and all the way to Germany before being captured and held as a prisoner of war for 6 months. Kevin was much more interested in talking to him about his time served then about the neighborhood. He did tell us some things but finally said it was still hard for him to talk about so we asked no more. After we left we drove on down to Charleston and camped at a real nice campground just south of town called Oak Plantation RV. It was late when we pulled in so we set up camp and settled in for the night.