Top Of The List For Me

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, and welcome to the Best East Coast Beaches
for Couples. The podcast for love birds looking to escape
to the shore will guide you to the most romantic, peaceful,
and beautiful beat spots along the East Coast, places where
you can relax, reconnect, and enjoy each other without the crowds.

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Let's find your perfect beach get away. Let's talk beaches
in South Carolina for couples. So I'm not talking about,
you know, high school couples or college couples, or spring
breakers and all that kind of stuff. We're not talking

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about that. We're talking about the place for you and
your wife, you and your very serious girlfriend fiance or
you know, you lean different ways, you know, and that's fine.
But South Carolina has some very beautiful beaches. And I

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can be a little bit of an expert on this
particular subject. And I'm going to tell you why, because
I am from South Carolina, actually born in Alabama, but
now I live in South Carolina and I've lived here
for oh fifty four years, because i'll be fifty nine
and January, happy birthday. So the best beaches for couples

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and what to do there, you know, I kind of
went through a list or two, and the lists are okay,
But I'm going to do this on my personal experience.
I think that we'll all get a lot more out
of that. I think you'll get more out of it.
So I'm very, very what's the right word prejudice about

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number one on my list, and that would be Sullivan's Island,
off the coast of Charleston Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. An
incredible place. The beaches are amazing. They're generally not very
crowded in the summer. Of course, it gets a little crowded,

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particularly on the weekends, but if you want to still
go to a beach where you can go for a
leisurely stroll hand in hand at sunset sunrise, you can
see dolphin right off the shore, the waves breaking. You're
looking in the eyes of each other and just melting away.

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But anyway, it truly is a great place. And it's
even more than just the beach. Okay, it's the whole
atmosphere that surrounds Sullivan's Island. I mean, before you get there,
you're going down this road called Bensawyr Boulevard and you

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suddenly get to the marsh and in the summer, the
marsh is so green, and then the water at high
tide is coming up and you can see the different creeks.
You can see the lighthouse of the island in the background,
and then you see the Bensawyer Bridge, which is a
swing bridge, so it's not a drawbridge, so it doesn't

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open up on each end, so you go between it.
It actually swings. I guess that would be one hundred
and nine. I guess I'll be ninety degrees, one hundred
eighty degrees, ninety degrees so that the boats can go past.
It really really neat, kind of a blast from the past,

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so to speak. And then you're cruising on in. You know,
you're like, oh, this is so great, babe, this is great.
Look at that. Maybe you're looking good too. I can't
wait to get there. Then then you get on the
island and there's a little commercial area with restaurants and

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some shops and bars. There's some that you just got
to go to, dun Levy's Pub. It's Irish pub build
dune Levy started it. I know the guy. It's a
great place. It's fun. Don't take credit cards, make sure
you take a cash. They serve good basic food. Bar food,

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great hot dogs by the way, great staff, it's fun.
It's a fun place to go. And if you want
some kind of like late night weirdness or crazy that
that would be the place to go. On Sullivan's definitely done.
Leavy's Pub. Staying on the on the restaurant side of things,
there's probably one of my favorite restaurants. And in the

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whole world, you know, we all kind of have that
place that's that's our cheers, or we want to have
that place that's our cheers. Remember that show back in
the in the eighties with Ted Danson and a Norm.
What a great show that was. I never wanted to
be known as the Norm, though, but I think at

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some points in my life I may have been Norm anyway.
That place, to me and my significant other, who happens
to be my wife of almost twenty years, is high Time.
That's the name of it. High Time t H y

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m E like the herb. Walk in that place and
you just feel like you're part of the family. I
mean right now, even people that you know aren't from
aren't from South Carolina, aren't from Sulimon's Island, aren't from Charleston.
You you're part of the family, and you just fit

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right in. The food is amazing, the service is amazing.
The abdience of the place, it's it's beachy, but at
the same time it's nice. So you you know, you
can wear a sport coat, or you can wear you know,
shorts and a nice T shirt or or a college
or whatever. You're gonna fit right in and you're gonna

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love the food. Make sure that you ask for Emily,
she's the owner, and tell her how amazing the place is,
and tell where the man sent you. She'll know exactly
who we're talking about. So there's also the obstinate daughter
known as OD. They have a great gelato place downstairs

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from the restaurant they serve. It's kind of a sit
in a restaurant podcast. That's not where I wanted to
go with it, but that's kind of where we're going.
Kind of a Southern European feel to the food. I
guess at O D. The wine list is very seems
to me like Italian and French. I'm not familiar with

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any of the wines when I walk in that place,
and I'm a wine drinker, but they usually put me
in the right direction. Definitely an enjoyable time, great place
for a date. There's home team barbecue. I mean, that's
a fun place to go, you know. So what is
what I would do if I was going to Sullivan's

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and I didn't live there. You can't stay on Sullivan's
by the way, there's no hotel and there's no there's
no short term rentals with the houses either, maybe just
a few that were grandfathered in. That's also part of
the ambience. You can stay on the Hallow Palms, or
you can stay in my pleasant downtown. I think I
would probably uber onto the onto the island, and I

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would I would hit one of those restaurant bars first,
not have a few drinks, probably a little bit later,
like you know, three o'clock, four o'clock if it was
in the summer, maybe five, and then I would take
my significant other and I would say, hey, baby, what
do you say me? And you we head down and

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hit that beach and just see how romantic we can be,
because it really is that. I mean, you walk down there.
They don't even call the roads, you know, such and
such street or such and such road. It's station, you know,
station fifteen, Station twenty one, Station twenty two. You want
to stay station twenty one, Station twenty two. There was

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two of the good ones. That's the fun place, you know,
So it just going and walking down the beach and
just just checking everything out, checking the good people watching,
oh man, good people watching. But it is it's it's
a slow it's a slower environment there. It's easy, easy

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pace where you can actually, you know, you can. You
can talk to each other. You can take a couple
of chairs, or you could take some towels and just
just just chill, you know, take a cooler. Don't take
any alcohol on the beach. So that's one thousand and
forty one dollars fine if you're for each each container,

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So don't don't even go there. They're not joking, but
it's a great place to enjoy each other, talk to
dream that's ah. That reminds me of a story I'm
going to tell you about myself. When my wife and
I first met twenty years ago, we we just felt

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truly instantly in love. It's amazing. She had a nicer,
much nicer house than I did at the time, so
we would always go there. Our first date was really
like six or seven weeks long. The first time we
were apart was when she went to New York with
her mother to get her wedding dress and then the

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date was back on. But it's what we would do
is we would sit at her house and we would
drink some cheap red wine. What was it, some kind
of Italian cheap wine, cabot pinot noir. I think, oh,
but man, it was good then and we would talk.
We would talk. We would talk about where do we

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where do we want to go, Where do we want
to be, Where do we want to live. She asked
me a question one time, she goes, if you could
live anywhere in the world, where would you live? And
I said, you know, I've always wanted to live on
Sullivan's armand she said me too. I mean, so that
was almost the clincher right there. So you know we

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were We were married about five months later. But that
was really one of our first goals. How are we
going to get from our current financial situation to be
able to afford a place at the beach on Sullivan's Island.
That's no small feat and it's not going to happen overnight,

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but that was our goal and that's what we set
out to do. And I guess ten years later we
lived on Sullivan's Island and it was amazing. And it
was not an easy, straightforward journey. It was definitely baby
steps and then some bigger steps and then a couple
of giant steps and a couple of just leaps of faith,

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you know, and you know, by guy, we did it,
you know. So that's that's why Sullivan's Island is number
one on the list when it comes to a place
for uh couples that want to you know, romantic and
and and hold hands and all that good cheesy stuff

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that just makes you warm inside. Obviously we're still married,
so we did something right on the other side of things,
you know. So if we leave Sullivan's, I think my
next and it's is completely different, would be Folly Beach.

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They call Folly Beach the edge of America. And as
for a reason, that reason is is because it's still
a little different. It's a little different crowd, it's a
little different setting. A lot of good surfing down there,
as far as the East coast of the United States goes. Uh.
Down at the wash Out, you know, there's a couple

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of good old bars there. Silver Dollar, a little more
of a party spot, a lot of short term rentals.
H A lot of a lot of locals live there too,
very friendly, kind of hippie sheet kind of thing. My
wife is going to butcher me for saying that, but

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that's kind of what it is to me. You know,
the laid back surfers and the you know Burke and
stop Where and you know, you know, surfing with the
Lord type stuff. But it's it's it's a great place,
and it is is number two on my list. You
need to go there. It takes a little while to

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get there because it is the edge of America, for
God's sake, but uh, you know, take the time and
get down there. I don't go there a whole lot anymore,
but the times that that we've been, and when I
actually lived there for a little while, this place called
the Front Beach End, they call it the FBI. And

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I'm gonna tell you something. This was. This was a
place that you paid week to week in cash. And
I guarantee you half the people that lived at this
place where on America's most wanted. I almost guarantee you
that that's the case. That it was like a community
bathroom shower. I can't remember how I think it was

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eighty bucks for a week, and they were serious about
paying by the week because I drove home to see
to see my mom, and I think I stayed an
extra day or two because the cooking was so good
and just so good at top of my mom. And
when I got back a daily all of my stuff,

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I mean everything were in black plastic trash bags out
by the road, not even in the parking lot in
the road. And I was a little peeved, and I
was pissed off straight to the office. And before I

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even got there, he said, you're a day late. Ask
your stuff. If you want to stay some more, here's
eighty bucks you can get. You can give me the
eighty bucks and I help you get your stuff back
up to your room. We looked at him. I wanted
to be so pissed off, but he was right. I said,
all right, here's eighty bucks, let's go get the stuff.
So anyway, that's my story of the Edge of America.

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Folly Beach. Now another beach that a lot of people like,
and that's that's Seabrook. Seabrook and Kiowa. Now that's you know,
those are the that's the beach where you got all
the big ten fifteen million dollar homes. It's a great

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beach to go for the day. It's it's it's low key,
not a whole lot going on. You know, there's not
much in the way of restaurants and bars and stuff
like that, which makes it a great place for a
you know, for couples. You can rent a place, you
can be rbo at and stay a week or whatever,

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and I'm sure you can have a lot of fun. Man,
I'd love to do that right now. Just go for
a week. Well, I just go for a couple of
days with my wife. We can have a lot of
fun there. We may see the beach we wait on.
I don't know. Anyway, we all need some time away.
So those three beaches right there are great. You know.

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Myrtle Beach is always the fun party place. I don't
know if I'm going to take my wife there, my
new girlfriend or I'm not saying that I have a
new girlfriend, but if I was in that stage of
life where I did well, I almost took you know,
took my foot in my mouth on out. But you know,
maybe in that case, Myrtle Beach might be fun. I

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went to Myrtle Beach lot when I was in high schochool,
in college, and man, we had a blast, absolute blast.
I can't tell about those stories right now. This is
a family show anyway, you know, I hope that as
far as South Carolina Beaches go, those are three of
my favorites. There's, there's. I got a list of ten.
I'm not going to get to them. I'm running short

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on time already. But anyway, Uh go go to Sullivan's,
go to High Time, go to Home Team, go to Poe's.
These are all restaurants. Go to dun Levey's, member take
cash to dune Levi's. There's there is a tash machine
in there, but it's always so dark. I never can
I can see what I'm punching punching in there. But

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go have a good time and enjoy the South Carolina
beaches because in their own way, they're all amazing with loves.
Maybe I'll see you there, who knows. Anyway, you guys,
go have a good time. Watch out for the sharks.
That might be me. Anyway, This is the Man, and

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I'm out, so y'all have a great day. God bless you.
Talk to you soon.