We decided to just book it from Austin to Charleston, SC, our first stop on a straight shot up the Atlantic Coast. We’d had a weird route because of needing to go back to Texas, and we had already been through NOLA and that whole area twice before. So we planned two quick overnight stops. One at Poverty Point campground in Louisiana and one in Columbia, Georgia. Little did we know, Poverty Point was a U.S. National Monument and World Heritage Site and we had the fortune of being able to explore some of the oldest Native American ruins in the country!!! It was spectacular and totally unexpected. We had barely done any research and so were overjoyed to find out what we were camping next to.  It was a welcome reminder of how amazing this country of ours is and how much older than 1776 things can get…

The structures at Poverty Point date from 1600 B.C.!!!