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Another state chalked up
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I-95 travelers already know. For the rest, it stands for South of the Border
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After 6800 miles, the other Shining Sea - the Atlantic at Myrtle Beach
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Not a lot of people on the beach - we thought it was very nice
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Our first (and maybe last) picture of the ubiquitous beach guy with metal detector
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A beached catamaran makes it easy to find the walkway back to the car
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He's been following us up the beach
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Some strange native ritual, no doubt
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Myrtle Beach has nice walkways over the dune line
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Two teddy bears, says Judy. One's plastic
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We couldn't find out why the Myrtle Beach Hard Rock Cafe is a pyramid
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First Presbyterian Myrtle Beach - they're building a new, bigger facility up the road
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Judy's view of the sunset that wasn't in the driver's eyes
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If you watch hurricane coverage on the Weather Channel, that's the pier they always show getting battered
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It's actually not in Myrtle Beach, but a few miles south
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It's a great beach for walking
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Lots of nibblies in the sand if you're a bird
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Lots of nibblies above the sand if you're not a bird
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Lots of fisherfolk on the pier - costs $1 to walk and/or gawk
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He actually got a fish there. Surprised all of us, including him
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Kind of, almost, sort of in the surf . . .
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Leave your shoes and chairs behind and just wander
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Seafood Buffets are legendary in Myrtle Beach, and Crabby Mike's is one of the better ones
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Imagine the impact on some college kid after a long night of drinking . .
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Where we stayed in Yemassee, SC
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Lots of Spanish Moss in these parts
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Although there are gators in the lake, we just saw this turtle
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The lake is quite large and contained within the RV park
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Frampton Hall - an old plantation house - is the Low Country Visitor Center
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Live Oak and Spanish Moss - so southern
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Looking out at Fort Sumter from the Battery in Charleston, SC
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Many fine mansions along the water in Charleston
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Seems like everybody has a pseudo-trolley these days
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Most of the boats on the water were tour boats of one kind or another
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This is how they water the plants along the sea wall
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Wonderful 200 year old homes, all facing south
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That's our kind of transportation
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Columns - from top down, Corinthian, Ionic & Doric
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Lots of pelicans, causing us to recite Odgen Nash doggerel
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How you get atop the Charleston Sea Wall
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Another neat sightseeing vehicle
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Wating for the tour boat to take us to Fort Sumter
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Stylish bridge crosses the Cooper River at Charleston
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Saling boats are always nice to watch
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Our Fort Sumter tour included a bunch of energetic high school kids
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Approaching Fort Sumter. Not much left of it . . .
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The fort was originally 3 times as high. Civil War shelling pretty much leveled it
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We endured a two-boat traffic jam at the Fort Sumter pier
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Once upon a time, there was a cannon in each of those ports
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We were welcomed by a park ranger
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The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Union occupied Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861
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Today it's a national monument, accessible only by boat
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The fort was never actually finished. Once the war started, it took a lot of damage while occupied by the Confederate Army
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A gun port from the inside
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All of the cannon at the fort are original
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A nice young lady took this for us after we took one of her
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The fort was built to defend Charleston Harbor, but never really did
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The dark spot is an artillery shell that almost made it thru the wall
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And this one flew all the way over the fort and hit the wall from the inside
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The tracks remain from the gun carriages, now long gone
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These guns were huge - this one weighs about 14 tons, shot a 22 inch shell
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The five flags of Fort Sumter - US Pre-war, original Confederate, South Carolina, second Confederate, US at end of war
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Headed back to the tour boat after an hour at the fort
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Neat artwork at the Charleston Aquarium
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On Hilton Head Island, Al's second house there
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And the first house Al lived in on Hilton Head Island
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The famous symbolic lighthouse at Harbour Towne
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It was built as the symbol of Sea Pines Plantation when the island was developed by realtors
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Sailed all the way here from Salem, OR? Your turn, Denny . . .
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They're very proud of the views around here
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A musical connection - the boat, not Al
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It's named Out to Lunch
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From atop the lighthouse, the famed 18th green at Harbour Towne
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It's said the harbor community was designed after Portofino, Italy
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Preserved ruins of an old plantation house on Hilton Head
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The walls were built primarily of tabby - mostly shells
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Love those tree branches
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On the beach at Hilton Head
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Cute kite
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We're pleased to get this picture - those fellas move fast
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Lots of beach to walk on, which is about all we could afford to do on it
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Yes, they even carpet the beach. Maybe it makes it easier to walk on
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Never saw a beach carpeted before. Pretty cool idea, actually
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Palms and palmettos and blue sky
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At Walterboro, SC, the Artisans Center had lots of neat stuff
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Lots of neat sculptures and things like this
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It's interesting what qualifies as art sometimes
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Stainless steel palm tree for the folks who have everything
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Musical connection - heavy metal?
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Spanish Moss - an epiphyte - uses trees for support, but gets all nutrients from the air. And it's actually a bromiliad, not a moss
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Oxymoronic Sign - and that's the LOWEST El Cheapo we've seen!
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Neither of us had ever seen a real cotton field before . .
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The raw stuff is just like the cotton balls you buy, but with seeds
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Boone Hall Plantation house, north of Charleston
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Boone Hall's trademark live oak drive
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This is the 4th plantation house on this site, built in 1936
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Even in November, butterflies in the garden
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Butterflies and flowers are really fun
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Hope it's a good for the flowers as it is for the butterflies
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Lots of these berries grow here. Not sure what they are
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One huge live oak tree
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Our plantation house tour guide
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Unfortunately, no photos indoors
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This plantation is still a working farm - pecans, strawberries, pumpkins, and Christmas trees
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Basket sewing is a unique low country art/craft form, brought from Africa with the slaves
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This young lady is a basket sewer - and makes beautiful things
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A group hearing a lecture on life in the slave community
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Framed again
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Vines growing up a pecan tree
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Original slave residences dating to the early 1800s
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Another look at that marvelous drive
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The oak trees along the drive are over 200 years old.
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They're restoring the plantation's cotton gin
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We don't know where the name came from. But we absolutely couldn't resist the picture
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Next stop, Georgia!