Coming down to the port city this Christmas Carmen decided to spend two days at ....

... Beaufort, SC (pronounced Buford). We stayed at the Greyhound Flats, two "luxury apartments" nicely renovated from a former Greyhound Bus station, back in the days when the US was covered with bus routes that went almost anywhere and you didn't have to take the plane.

I thought of them more as "affordable luxury apartments" but they certainly were very nice. The owners who run a jewelry store right around the corner did all the design work themselves. The pictures actually don't do them justice. I found them very comfortable and relaxing. Also because downtown Beaufort is a slow easy going place that closes down around 7 pm the rooms were completely quiet (except for the evening the gospel choir from the Tabernacle Church on the next block fired up and that was a gift).

The little lummox shamelessly luxuriated in the luxury of the luxury apartments. We left him alone in there the first evening to go for a walk and were afraid he might be upset at being left. Nope. He happily hopped up on the beds, one of the most comfortable I have ever slept on, and laid there dreaming doggie thoughts until we came back. He seemed to enjoy his stay, and he certainly enjoyed downtown Beaufort. Except for the large number of extraordinarily friendly cats found there.