Our first stop was in Mt. Pleasant where we had breakfast in a restaurant named The egg and I. Great choice (by luck), we would stop there again. We didn't make any other stops but Mt Pleasant seemed to have a lot of new traditional housing developments which we took note of. We wanted to get past the Charleston (I'll tell you about that later) and make a stop in Georgetown, SC to take a look at their waterfront which is much like ours in FB. Their main street along the river is also called Front Street, they have shops, restaurants and housing facing the street and between the properties and the river is a wonderful 12' wide promenade with boat dockage on the water side. Some of the properties have walkways to the promenade, some don't. The restaurants and bars all have seating facing the water. Where the connecting streets meet Front Street there are pockets parks that open to the promenade. The signage in the downtown area is exceptional nice and at every corner there is a informational display that tells you where you are and a map display of where everything else is.
This is one of the pocket parks that lead to the 12' wide promenade.
From Georgetown we headed to Myrtle Beach where we had reservations at Myrtle Beach State Park for two nights. Myrtle Beach may be one your favorite places and it was for me - until it got rebuilt after a hurricane washed the old, fun Myrtle Beach away. Today, it's not one of favorites - it's like Branson South or Gatlinburg on the Water. Business 17 is miles and miles of restaurants, bars, gas stations, glorified goofy golf and businesses that are your wildest imagination, coupled with traffic lights at every other corner. They just go on and on. Now, there is a bypass road but our goal was to stay as near to the coast as possible and the State Park was on the oceanfront.
No comments:
Post a Comment