Has anyone been to "Myrtle Beach Area" in particular Murrels Inlet and

[KoKo]

is it really the Red Neck Capitol of the US?" Is there anything there for "Liberal Democrats?" Can you just enjoy it or will you feel the "mullets" will be after you?

Trying to take a short vacation and have focused on that area and am curious if any DU'ers have had good luck there. :shrug:

[Wickerman]

1. 15 years or so ago I was there "off season" a few times and it was fine

Beach, beach and some more beach. Some little cabana side bars, t-shirt shops, tourist stuff. I don't think there is a Lefty's 'R' Us or anything, but there is just plain vacation stuff to do. Miniature golf, real golf, nite clubs.

[TNMOM]

2. It's nice

When I lived in North Carolina, my family and I went like every summer. Myrtle Beach is very commercial (lots of mini golf, water slides, arcades and t-shirt shops), but the nearby beaches like Murrel's Inlet can be very relaxing. We used to stay on Sunset Beach. Your worries are unfounded. Lots of out-of-staters come, diluting the mullet population.

[jayavarman]

3. I remember eating some good sea food @ Murrell's Inlet

some years back

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

4. Yes. Awesome Hush Puppies and Fresh Shrimp

Not as many necks in the Murrell's Inlet area as Myrtle Beach. Used to be a lot of Canadiens in the Summer. Might want to consider Pawley's Island if you like shabby/rustic non-commercial beaches.

[JanMichael]

5. Used to live there

do not miss Brookgreen Gardens...http://www.brookgreen.org/

The website does not even come close to doing the beauty of that place justice...and plan on spending hours there.

Directly across from Brookgreen on Hwy 17 is Huntington Beach State Park...the only unspoiled beach I have seen in both NC and SC. Take snacks, and drinks...again, plan on hours.

Garden City Pier area is fun; old fashioned arcade across the street...beach stuff from when we were kids-

Dinner: two words: Drunken Jack's. Hushpuppies. You will NEVER care about other hushpuppies again...they are that good. The Ghost Ship is also good, as is Nance's Oyster Bar. These are all located on the same strip.

If you want more stuff, I can keep going. I adore that area!

[KoKo]

6. I've bookmarked this for your recommendations. Thanks. Would you go

back there, though. You are in Dubai now...would you ever go back to Myrtle Beach/Pawleys Island/Murrell's Inlet?

Would you? If you were older and your beautiful daughters were grown?

[JanMichael]

7. Not sure what you mean by "You are in Dubai"

?

I would go back to Murrell's Inlet and Pawleys tomorrow morning--I adore that place.

We are in NC

[KoKo]

10. yes...I did confuse you with our DU'er who is in Dubai...sorry

apologies...

[oneighty]

8. Travel south on Rt 17.

Past Georgetown, cross over the North and South Santee River to my wife's home town; McClellanville. There are things to see in the area fresh seafoods to eat. And quite a few democrats. Good ones.

We were in the seafood business there.

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[JanMichael]

9. How cool is that?

has that town made a come back since Hugo? God, I felt for those people during that storm...horrible.

Steph

[oneighty]

12. Hugo destroyed my

Vicky Mary. So sad even though I had sold her tears, yes and years ago. Francis Marion forest tore up too Hugo was mean.

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[KoKo]

11. Thanks "oneighty" gotta keep in touch with "Dems" on vacation...worried

about bumper sticker "Show Bush the Door in '84" on our car. We have masking tape so we can take it off when we go through "unfriendly areas."

[oneighty]

13. Do not flaunt!

Be cool about that. My wife was in McClellanville recently. They have a sandwich shop and a restaurant in the Village. Shrimp trawlers at the docks. Saint James Santee Church is well worth visiting (Ask Villagers first). I think a fellow DUer bought a house there too, but she left DU long ago. Much of my book 'Voyages of the Vicky Mary' took place in that area.

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[ajacobson]

14. I lived there for a while and

my grandparents retired there. Great seafood, the tap water was not drinkable. Lots of Canadians during tourist season. Actually the best time of year was during the winter when it was just the local yokels and it was nice and cool.

Eventually my grandparents got tired of the heat and moved away. My mom and her mom moved back there after my grandfather died.

I worked at Drunken Jacks briefly and another restaurant called the Pilot House, which I understand went out of business a number of years ago.

It is the South and some people are still real sensitive about how things turned out in 1865.