I77 to I26 to I95, we drop through South Carolina.  Our destination is Ace Basin National Wildlife Refuge in the middle of nowhere between Charleston and Hilton Head.  Increasingly the roadside is dominated by evergreens with only splashes of brightly colored hardwoods among them.  As we near our destination, the pines are displaced with live oaks draped in Spanish moss and stately cypress jutting out of still water.  Roosting egrets are like ornaments in the tree tops.  We are in “low country” now.  It is cool and bugless (mostly) so easier to enjoy than most of the year!