Thanksgiving + 3 Days
Nov. 27th, 2006 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisSunday started almost as early as Saturday. I have to get out of the habit of early mornings... I need more sleep than this.
Still, we got ourselves showered, dressed and checked out of the hotel and on our way to Maurita's place in Mount Pleasant. After a brief stop, the four of us and Maurita's roomie, Sarah, headed to Locklear's for brunch. Towards noon, we said our good-byes, loaded into our minivan and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cuyahogarvr's car and headed back to DC. Traffic, with the exception of a few knots of stop-and-go, was largely smooth through South Carolina and North Carolina. Things got ugly north of Richmond, VA, but we anticipated that.
Some observations about the Carolinas:
1. What is North Carolina's obsession with billboards? There seemed more posted there than all other states I've visited combined. Some houses had huge monstrosities in their front yards; some were large enough to shade the entire home.
2. South of the Border, a tacky tourist pseudo-themed shopping & entertainment park just inside the South Carolina border form North Carolina, is tacky beyond all belief. Can we cut back the billboards related to it by, oh, 90%? That would still leave several dozen on both the north and south approaches.
3. Is there any part of South Carolina that isn't built in a swamp? It seemed every area of the state through which we drove was six inches above the water table. Standing pools of water were everywhere. It's like one big flood plain. Can anyone actually get flood insurance in that state?
In all, it was a delightful trip, although I was warned by locals that the summer is incredibly hot and humid: I'll have to restrict my visits to fall and winter months, but I hope we can come again soon.
Still, we got ourselves showered, dressed and checked out of the hotel and on our way to Maurita's place in Mount Pleasant. After a brief stop, the four of us and Maurita's roomie, Sarah, headed to Locklear's for brunch. Towards noon, we said our good-byes, loaded into our minivan and
cuyahogarvr's car and headed back to DC. Traffic, with the exception of a few knots of stop-and-go, was largely smooth through South Carolina and North Carolina. Things got ugly north of Richmond, VA, but we anticipated that.Some observations about the Carolinas:
1. What is North Carolina's obsession with billboards? There seemed more posted there than all other states I've visited combined. Some houses had huge monstrosities in their front yards; some were large enough to shade the entire home.
2. South of the Border, a tacky tourist pseudo-themed shopping & entertainment park just inside the South Carolina border form North Carolina, is tacky beyond all belief. Can we cut back the billboards related to it by, oh, 90%? That would still leave several dozen on both the north and south approaches.
3. Is there any part of South Carolina that isn't built in a swamp? It seemed every area of the state through which we drove was six inches above the water table. Standing pools of water were everywhere. It's like one big flood plain. Can anyone actually get flood insurance in that state?
In all, it was a delightful trip, although I was warned by locals that the summer is incredibly hot and humid: I'll have to restrict my visits to fall and winter months, but I hope we can come again soon.
