Category: South Carolina trips
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Motels in Myrtle Beach, Dec. 11-12. 2013
I escaped for one night midweek to Myrtle Beach. The winter wind whipped in the cold. Even after bicycling up and down the Grand Strand, it was becoming difficult to find a positive thing to say about the whole place. Almost all the restaurants are a quarter mile from the beach on US 17, …
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Southern South Carolina, November 9-10, 2013
Gazing at the map south of Chapel Hill, Aiken, South Carolina seemed as good a place as any for a one night bike trip. I knew nothing about it, other than one of our vendors from work, the multinational UPS, had chosen this place to centralize their customs brokerage operation. Since this is a…
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The South: Darlington-Cheraw SC, Dec. 1-2, 2012
The flat coastal plains of Darlington County stretched out ahead of me; cotton fields and trailers strewn across the landscape. Was this what Bruce Springsteen had in mind when he wrote the song “Darlington County”? This is an area northwest of Myrtle Beach, just over the North Carolina line from Laurenburg and Rockingham. Rural South…
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