Category: South Carolina trips
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Cycling South, destination unknown; January 3 – 7, 2021
Sometimes I am so A.D.D. that I really cannot seem to plan anything. I could not seem to decide where to go next. I decided just to ride towards South Carolina and Florida and see how it goes. During this pandemic I want to guard my own health but more importantly I do not want […]
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We’s all from Spartanburg; March 7 – 9, 2020
“From Spartanburg South Carolina please welcome the Marshall Tucker Band”. In the early 1970’s I saw several very hot shows by The Marshall Tucker Band; the Caldwell brothers on guitar and bass that both played with their thumbs instead of a pick. Between songs they would repeatedly proclaim in a Southern accent “we’s all […]
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The Grand Strand, November 10-11, 2018
Hardly anybody from Chapel Hill goes to Myrtle Beach anymore. Snobbism has taken hold. This is too bad because Myrtle Beach can be a fascinating place, and it has a beach! It is a string of beach towns that are marketed as The Grand Strand. I wanted to go somewhere for one night. […]
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Columbia and Lexington SC, March 16-17, 2018
I had been to Columbia, the capital city of South Carolina on a couple of occasions, but I had never been all that impressed. I figured I just had not looked at it hard enough. My newlywed parents and infant older sister had lived for two years 1953-55 in Columbia, where my father had a […]
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