Category: South Carolina trips
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Myrtle Beach SC, March 15-16,2016
I did my first Tour of Myrtle Beach a little over two years ago. In the spirit of investigation, I decided to revisit the place. Let me clear two misconceptions about Myrtle Beach. The main attraction, whatever that attraction is, is probably not the beach. Not everybody who visits here is from The South. So…
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Orangeburg SC, April 8-9. 2015
I had gone to the Wednesday practice round of The Masters golf tournament; an event with tickets so scarce that you have to win a lottery to be able to pay a hefty fee to just watch the guys practice. My friend Tom was gracious in inviting me to this event. Driving the four hours…
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Hilton Head Island SC, Nov. 29-30, 2014
Why, you may ask, did I choose to go to this place? Because I had never been there. It did not seem like the kind of place that I would like; I predicted a place filled with gated communities and golf courses. Which, it pretty much turned out to be. That,…
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Georgetown, South Carolina and the swamps, March 1 – 2, 2014
The hinterlands of South Carolina south of Lumberton NC and west of Myrtle Beach, are filled with miles of flat pine forest, crossed by razor straight narrow highways filled with screeching pickup trucks that scare a bicyclist. The bicycling on this trip was mostly a downer. Pickup trucks with knobby tires produce a fearsome…
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