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My fourth day on the
road was spent off the road. I needed the day off I guess and Becca
and I spent the day tooling around Charleston and environs. We ate lunch
at some seafood shack way the hell out there, on Morris Island I think.
This place, too, had great food and seemed like a good place for a meet-n-greet
one of these days. And on the way, we'd passed Folly Island and a place
I'd like to go eat at some time, that had a dock at the back.
We also spent some time boot shopping and looking for an MSR fuel bottle. After my near-disaster at the start of my trip, I turned up the heat on finding an appropriate fuel cannister to carry in my saddlebags. Never did find one of those on this trip and will have to order one off the web, I guess.
As for the boots, I was after a pair of Red Wings style # 2426, which seem just about the perfect biker boot: high enough, waterproof, steel toe, insulated, good reputation, "breathable", and rated for electrical hazard. Well, we found a Red Wing store, but 2426 was the ONLY boot they didn't stock. Those bastards. "Oh, well, we're in South Carolina and the 2426 is insulated; nobody wants insulated boots around here." Huh. Yeah.
Well, the point's moot now. I've found a different boot on the internet from a company that makes you measure your feet and guarantees satisfaction. The boot seems like everything I'm looking for, including a little higher and a lace-it-once-then-zip-it configuration. You can even buy a mismatched pair if your feet are really different sizes. I look forward to trying these out and may post a review here once I get them.
My last day in Charleston wrapped up with a little farce/musical/melodrama that a friend of Becca's was starring in. I felt a little strange, watching this home-grown regional production in a converted store-front theatre; I've done time in some of the best theatres of New York. But when I think back to my earliest theatre days, this little melodrama was not only good, but also a lot of fun to watch.
