It was a Saturday night an hour or two before sunset at Edisto Beach, and dockmaster Dan Warren was in charge of steaming the oysters.

On the backside of Georgetown’s Front Street shops, the Thursday-night crowd was gathered on the deck at Big Tuna Raw Bar for the season’s first soft-shell crabs.

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Asheville & Surroundings:

Greenville, South Carolina
It was a tasting, so there was an arc of wines around me and the 35 or so other sippers and swirlers, each glass with a small pour of French red. The setting was Greenville’s 118-year-old brick “Trolley Barn”

Lexington, Kentucky
With that first sip, I couldn’t wait to begin our “spirited” quest—a tour of eight distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.

Beaufort and St. Helena Island
In a white, one-room building on St. Helena Island, Joseph “Rev.” Bryant started singing “Oh Lord, come by here.”

Desperately wanting to get out of Dodge this summer—even if for a long weekend—but wallet worries bogging you down?

South Africa, Sans Visa, Cairo, Vietnam, & Peru
With the same gusto harnessed for the start of the Living on the Edge series in August 2007—for which I flung myself out of a plane with a stranger strapped to my back—I blew out of Charleston in March 2008 on a yearlong circumnavigation of the globe.

If ever there is a time to discover the heartbeat of Asheville, then a Friday evening in late spring generally reveals the city at its truest—folks emerging out of sleepy social hibernation, ready to

Seated for tea at the Gryphon Tea Room, two women spoke softly and sipped slowly, but they were immensely noticeable.

Oxford, Mississippi
Walking up the alley of cedars on a chilly morning in Oxford, Mississippi, there’s the feeling that you’ve arrived at one of those heady places

When a Lamborghini zips by, you feel it. There’s a low rumble reverberating through the pavement. With the Porsche Box­ster cruising along three cars back, not so much.