After the day of Jacob and Roz's Wedding we headed out early down the road to Georgia. Along the way, Jacob called us and let us know that Roz's parents wanted to meet us....Good Idea!

We stopped in at a place called South of the Border, South Carolina. It was like an amusement park. According to Wikapedia:

Historic Background

South of the Border was developed by Alan Schafer (1914-July 19, 2001),^[1] who founded a beer stand at the location in 1950 and steadily expanded it with Mexican trinkets and numerous kitsch items. He had a great deal of success turning South of the Border into a "tourist mecca"^[2] because of his location, which was immediately across the border from a dry North Carolina county, and grew his small business into what was, by local standards, an economic empire. South of the Border grew to over a square mile, required its own infrastructure, and had its own fire and police departments. Schafer became reclusive, building a large compound of interconnected houses outside the Dillon city limits. At South of the Border, he kept secret apartments hidden in the backs of restaurants and shops.

Notable Features and People

Part of the film Forces of Nature was filmed at South of the Border. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, originally from nearby Dillon, South Carolina, worked for a summer as a poncho-wearing waiter at South of the Border to help pay his way through Harvard.^[2]

We met the Covingtons there and had a good talk about our (now married) children. Unfortuneately we did not get a picture of them. Darn! They're probably glad. 

They were warm friendly people and I was glad to get to know them a little. We found a lot of commonalities in our families. 

On down the road we traveling through North and South Carolina as well as Georgia, I noticed lots of cars with bikes on the back; dozens of them. I don't know where the bike ride was...but there had to be one somewhere.

On the way to Valdosta we came across a place called Jasper's Porch.