Moncks Corner - Part 1

Sometimes I have to travel for work - fly out of town all over the country, maybe drive. It doesn't happen often, and sometimes I have to drive. That's okay - the Del Sol gets great mileage and I get to score 44.5 cents per mile when I do... at least until the government changes that rate AGAIN. Sometimes I get to go to really cool places.. for example:

Modesto - the hometown of George Lucas. Not so great in and of itself (another story to be told), but the flight in goes right through San Francisco, and if you time your trips carefully, you can score a day of sightseeing and whatnot on an expense report. Hey, it WAS the only flight out that day...

Las Vegas - Nuff said. What I did there, well... it stayed there... and that's a GOOD thing.

Miami - Latinas, beaches, and rum. The entire city has a soundtrack for partying... seriously.

Myrtle Beach - It's a bit trashy in sections, but still a party town in the summer... lots of hotties and warm, sunny weather is NEVER a bad thing.

Of course... sometimes the places aren't quite so cool...

Myrtle Beach... in the winter - Talk about a ghost town. I remember passing by numerous fun-looking businesses... all closed from OCTOBER til MARCH. What the hell? It's not like we're talking Maine in winter here, people! This is South Carolina! Ahh well..

Binghamton, New York - I recall reading some statistic (aka sadistic) that stated that it has fewer days of sunlight than even dreary, suicide-famous Seattle. Hooray.

Storm Lake, Iowa - tiny town in the middle of nowhere with a really coolly-named lake... and a gigantic slaughterhouse that appears to be the town's major industry. I will never forget the feeling of stepping out into the 90-plus degree, hot, humid morning air... downwind of that plant - it was right behind our lakefront motel. I think a sledge to the gut would be the closest approximation in describing it.
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Still, new places always afford new experiences, and what would life be without new experiences? Dull. Boring. Passe'. All of the above. And so, one time, waaaay back in the mid-90's, I had to go to this little town called Moncks Corner, South Carolina ...

County seat of Berkeley County, South Carolina... last census pegged population at an amazing 5952. See this Wikipedia article for details about this bustling Rednecktropolis...
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