Pictures from South Carolina
I finally got around to downloading the pictures of our South Carolina trip from our digital camera. Here are the two most absurd ones.
These are the flags flying in front of Maurice’s BBQ in Columbia, South Carolina. In order from top to bottom, those are the flag of the United States, the state flag of South Carolina, the Confederate flag, and the Union Jack. My best guess is that they are flying the Union Jack as solidarity with the United Kingdom (the only other nation really involved in fighting this utterly stupid Iraq War), although they don’t seem to realize that it’s typically considered an insult to fly one nation’s flag underneath another’s.
This is the uniquely campy 66 meters tall hat-shaped observation tower at the South of the Border “roadside attraction” (you couldn’t really call it an amusement park). For those of you who’ve never had the “privilege” of visiting South of the Border, so-called because it is just south of the North Carolina/South Carolina border, let me just say that it is even worse than the experience of reading their hundreds of obnoxious billboards all along I-95. I swear to God, I was on I-95 in New York once, and I saw a billboard that said “South of the Border, 834 miles” (or whatever, I don’t remember the exact distance).
