7. Full Day in St. Augustine, FL

We have the time and our motel is ‘reasonable’ for this part of the U.S. We paid $70 with Wi-Fi and a hot breakfast.  We are staying over another night. 

It is time to just be a tourist. Do nothing (we are good at that) and just loaf.

A lazy AM, with a lunch of fruit and yogurt, was followed by:  “OK, let’s see downtown Augustine in the afternoon.”

Grave of Joseph Hernandez, 1826 - 1877

After we found parking, always a challenge in St. Augustine, we walked past the Tolomato Cemetery.

Touring the Cemetery Named For a Seminole Indian Chief

The Preservation Society had an ‘open house’ on the old grounds and we took the free tour.

 

This Shelf Has a Worm Syrup & Intestinal Evacuant

We marched past an old drug store, actually the oldest drug store in town and Carol was smiling at the sign:  ‘Wash for weak Women’.    

City Gate

We ambled along St. George Street, now a pedestrian mall, took a few pictures of the Old City Gate and ended up in front of the Oldest Schoolhouse in the U.S.A. and  

Oldest Schoolhouse in the U.S.A.

 

Murals in St. Photios Basilica

St.Photios Basilica, a Greek Orthodox Church with beautiful murals.   

  

Oldest House

We walked for what seemed like hours and after visiting the ‘oldest’ house we had an early dinner at another ‘old’ place, the OC Whites Seafood and Spirits Tavern (1790) to end the day. 

Everything was the “oldest’ in St. Augustine and since St. Augustine is the ‘oldest’ City in the U.S. going back to 1565; they might have a claim that is true.

Yes, it was a bit touristy, lots of tourist shops, but we had the time to do it. So… why not!

Going further south tomorrow!