Daylight in Downtown: Cash bars, Graveyards, and Ralphie-O



Do you ever start writing a post and think 'lame', 'boring', 'dorky', then frown at the screen for a bit until something comes to you? Opening lines can be a bitch, my solution, as you can see, is to just start writing what I'm thinking.

Okay then, city of Charleston by day...really cool streets. Lots of cobblestone ones like these:

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And alleys, they are everywhere,

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but unlike NYC these alleys are bright and inviting,

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not the kind where you imagine dealers and hookers hanging out;

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amiright?

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Or amiright?

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I may have spoke too soon....though this has less of a 'drug deal' vibe and more of a 'ghosts lurking here'- the gate even creaked exactly like they do in horror movies...

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erm, guys, are we sure about this, we can still turn back....

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anddd of course this is where it leads.

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Did you know that the city of Charleston burnt to the ground seven times before they stopped using pine to build and started using stone?

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That's a lot of tragedy by fire, and explains the gazillion ghost tours they have at night.

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What was that? Did you hear that? Did it get colder and darker just now?

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Come on Zoe, move your butt...are you playing ostrich? They can still see you!

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And we're out, whew.

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Yes, a close encounter with the bad kind of spirits should always be followed by a trip to a pub for the good kind ;)

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Whoa. That's a lot of cash.

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What a brilliant gimmick! Put up a couple hundred in singles, sign them, and customers will think "I want my name up here" and take over.

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How much did you spend on decorating? Oh, about two hundred bucks, the rest came from all the tourists/suckers who've eaten here...

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And if you ever have a bad month, the walls will pay your rent and you just start over again. Yup, it's brilliant.

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Aren't they just a happy looking bunch of bikes?

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Is it me, or does the fudge look like a set of ta-ta's?

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'You seein' this Joe?' 'SMH, what is this world coming to'

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Just when I thought he couldn't get any odder...

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Moving on...the architecture is pretty fab

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You again? That face though...

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Really should've dared Ralphie to jump on that horse.

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Anddd, we're done. Whew, that was a lot of walking, but totally worth it. So what did we learn? This little city is super charming; with cool streets, buildings, and alley ways, it's definitely haunted, and Ralphie is a wierdo. Hee.

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More on the Charleston area to come, so stay tuned!




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