Bosswoman, a/k/a She Who Must Be Obeyed (with apologies to the late, great Leo Kern), and I drove up to Myrtle Beach to do the Tacky Tourist Tour over the Labor Day holiday. The intent was to hit some of the places in Myrtle that would appeal to Parrotheads. While up there we made an impromptu trip to Wilmington, NC. The next day we drove back down along the coast and stopped in at Charleston. The photographic evidence is presented here:
Enjoy!
Ratings and reviews in a nutshell:
Margaritaville of Myrtle Beach -- great fun, very classy place in a touristy way. Someday I'm going to spend a lazy afternoon there just watching the tube and the tourists and drinking a few.
Senor Frog's -- a bit of a disappointment. I had passed on their locations in Mexico because I heard they were "too American." Given a chance to hit the only US location (they are a Mexican corporation) I thought that they would be a bit more Mexican. Not really. And the bartender that we got obviously didn't want to be there that day. We'll hit one of their places for comparison when we go back to Mexico but the Myrtle Beach experience with them wasn't great.
Cheeseburger in Paradise -- pretty good, but not as extraordinary as Margaritaville. The prices on the food was reasonable, however, and seeing reproductions of the handwritten notes when Buffett wrote Margaritaville was pretty neat. If it wasn't for knowing that there was a Margaritaville in town this place would have moved up a notch or two on the scale.
Trip to Wilmington, where I used to live -- priceless.
Margaritaville Store in Charleston -- actually much more fun that I expected. It's a BIG store. We were in Charleston and wanted to pick up a few things and said "what the heck," so we looked the place up.
Like I always say, we all need to get out a bit. Deb and I have been working on reconditioning a motorhome all summer long and that has severely impacted other trips. The Labor Day trip was a MUST DO situation, and it was great for the soul.
