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Help Me Make a Backup Plan to Visit a Chunk of the South Somewhere
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It's our intent to visit Boston for a few days next month just before PAX. However my wife's bronchitis has been acting up and if the weather is too chilly we're looking at somewhere south of Maryland as a backup plan.
Thing is, having grown up there, we don't really like places south of Maryland. And I'm having a hard time figuring out where we'd even go if Boston falls through. But we're gonna try and make the best of it if that ends up being the plan. I've created a detailed image of whereabouts we'd be looking at:
We'd have six days off, the 6th to the 12th, with the start and end of it being planned for travel.
Things we like and are planning to enjoy in Boston:
Historical (non plantation) sites
Breweries
Animals
Naval stuff
Excellent, vegetarian friendly food
Anything odd or out of the ordinary
We don't need to stay in one location the whole time though that'd be a bonus.
Thing is, having grown up there, we don't really like places south of Maryland. And I'm having a hard time figuring out where we'd even go if Boston falls through. But we're gonna try and make the best of it if that ends up being the plan. I've created a detailed image of whereabouts we'd be looking at:
We'd have six days off, the 6th to the 12th, with the start and end of it being planned for travel.
Things we like and are planning to enjoy in Boston:
Historical (non plantation) sites
Breweries
Animals
Naval stuff
Excellent, vegetarian friendly food
Anything odd or out of the ordinary
We don't need to stay in one location the whole time though that'd be a bonus.
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If you're into food, Charleston is a center of a traditional (before fried chicken) southern food, plus regional barbecue.
If you're into beaches, that's always an option. Great Smoky Mountains on the other side of the state is also very pretty, but March isn't really the best season (fall/leaf season is). Asheville is kind of an arty/mountainy town, if you like that.
Theres the Biltmore in NC as well if you want to see how the 1% of the 1% lived back in the days of the Vanderbilts (not a plantation house - and waaaay more ostentatious)
If you are driving along the along the 95 youll definitely see a ton of these
I second the suggestions of the Outer Banks which is just a really great, relaxing location.
I'm going to guess that the trendiest, vegan-ist, food you can find in NC is going to be up in Asheville. But its an educated guess, I mostly spent my time in the lesser mountain cities.
I wonder if they still have all the stuff my family built in their museum
(model of the mountain, etc.)
The weather will be in the 50's and 60's, so your call there since it'll be too chilly to really do any swimming.
DC is awesome. But we live right by it and visit often it so not quite a vacation.
Outerbanks and Williamsburg are looking like good options. If Boston falls through we might split a couple days between the two.
It's absolutely beautiful, but hasn't had the tourist build-up wave that other Outer Banks areas have had.
I don't know how ... appropriate? ... it is for a March vacation, though.
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How dare u not tag me personally in this post!!! But listen, if you want to go to a nice place in South Carolina, I can recommend a lot of nice places to visit in Charleston. There's a ton of great dining (though vegetarian food is harder to find, admittedly), and some really pretty secluded beaches out on Sullivan's Island near the lighthouse. Myrtle Beach is also nice, but it's a very different feel- where Charleston is more historic antebellum south (plantations, the architecture, the entirety of downtown and the feel of it), Myrtle Beach is more of a Miami feel. Lots of toursity stuff (Broadway on the Beach! Ripley's Believe it or Not! Hard Rock Cafe! Amusement Parks! etc etc etc. Nightclubs and other similar things abound).
Everyone also said the Outer Banks, and I can't recommend them enough either. It's where wife's family (who live in Maryland!) go and visit once a year.
I'm also very offended that you decide to visit the South, and specifically the Carolinas only after I moved away.
YOU COULD HAVE MADE THIS TRIP LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO
Second the Asheville recommendation. The Blue Ridge is very pretty.
We made the mountain, all the cases, all the panels with the images on them (bald eagle, black bear, etc.), and the reproduction of the giant emerald
I -think- we made the replica of the D. Boone tree as well, but I can't remember.
I was pretty young at the time, but I remember that mountain was on our dining room table for AGES. Also, I helped roll the 'trees' onto the model
edit:
the prototype mountain is in my dads storage room
edit 2: I remember my dad forcing them to close the road while he drove the truck up to drop all the stuff off since a lot of those curves are not exactly easy to take in a regular car, much less a massive uhaul type truck
I hadn't thought of this stuff in years
Charleston is nice but a *lot* of the historical stuff is obviously fixated on the civil war.
NC has some of the best beaches in the US but the cities around them tend not to have the cultural density of asheville in the mountains or the triangle. My family would usually go to wilmington or wrightsville which have big, wide sandy beaches.
we also used to stay on bald head island, it's expensive to stay there but it's great for a day trip. You can only drive golf carts or bikes around the island, so it's nice to take a ferry and bike around. It's very pretty and has some gorgeous homes to gawk at.