My trip to St. Augustine was a short one, but it definitely let an impression. I originally thought I was going to have more time than I did, but it just didn’t work out that way, but I still got to visit the Castillo de San Marco. I was unsure about whether or not to visit another fort with my short amount of time, but my mom had told me about when she was a little girl and they visited the fort and she remembered absolutely loving it. So, I took my mom’s memory from 30+ years ago, and went for it… Her memory served her (and me) well. My mom is the one on the upper left! So fun! I was very pleased, once again, that my National Park Pass covered my entrance fee, and even though I had just been to a coastal fort the day before, I was just as intrigued by this one. This fort was even older (St. Augustine is the oldest consistently European-occupied city in the United States) and had been through even more. This fort was not made up of bricks like Fort Pulaski, but of bits of shells cemented together which was easily visible on the walls. The location of this fort was also […]