Augusta, GA and Myrtle Beach, SC

For some reason I just couldn’t get into Augusta, Georgia.  No particular reason, and if we come back sometime I might love it, but this time I just wasn’t interested.  Nevertheless, we needed to spend our time there doing something, so we walked along the Riverwalk .  This Riverwalk is exactly what the name says - a walkway along the river.  Most of the buildings along the river are built of brick, with a liberal use of white grout which kept reminding me of New England buildings.  We did find something interesting there - in the walkway they have an Analemmactic Sundial for the Eastern Daylight Time.  You stand on the current month, and your shadow falls across the numbers to indicate what time it is.  It seemed to work, too.  

And along the walk they have a history of the Georgia flags.  They are flying the current Flag of Georgia, but their plaque is a bit out of date . . . like 12 years.  

In 2001 they replaced the Confederate flag version with a kinder, gentler design. 

The next day we drove to Myrtle Beach.  The beach there is white sand, with not very many shells.  There was a good surf rolling in and small schools of fish were jumping out of the water while we were there.  The water was a little too cool for comfort, so we laid out on the beach; nothing relaxes like sun and sand and surf.   

We also went down to the Boardwalk area and walked around there.  The Myrtle Beach Boardwalk area is full of arcades, souvenir shops and several Ripley Believe it or Not shows.  We didn’t go into any of those but we did go on the SkyWheel, for a bird’s eye view of the beach and boardwalk.  We snacked on mediocre coney dogs and fries, then went to The Gay Dolphin Gift Shop, which seems to be the best gift shop there, although all the beautiful stuff is downstairs.  

And we went to Dick’s Last Resort for a meal.  The server was just the right amount of rude and he took backtalk as good as he got.  And the food was good.  My pulled pork with Carolina sauce and slaw was just right.  

It seemed that besides the beach, most of Myrtle Beach was souvenir shops, Pancake restaurants, Miniature Golf, Pirate Adventure Shows and Medieval Times dinner shows.  We've already done all that elsewhere, so we were ready to leave Myrtle Beach after a couple of days.  On to Charleston.