a Charleston, SC DO???
 

So, I just had a random thought.....I live here in this beautiful city and since i travel so much and spend my spare time on FT, I have yet to see some of the real sites around here.....Did I mention I have been living here 3 years.....so I said to myself: "Self, why don't you host a DO and invite your friends that you spend so much time with on that D*** website....."
So with that thought in mind, would anyone be interested in joining a fellow FT addict for a CHARLESTON, SC DO??????:D:D:D

I'd be up for that - I'm in CAE, could drive down for a weekend day or 2...

HTSC

sure...if I'm not doing MR ;)

drew

Name the date, and I'd try hard to be there ;)

Just checked AVL-CLT-CHS on US, though, and at $687 + cheapest roundtrip, I think a leisurely drive down would be more to my liking!

DRIVE !!!:eek: FT blashpemy unless you found a rental car oops fare !!;):)

Charleston sounds excellent, good vibe and great food in that town.

Tell the self I'd be interested, just not during the summer UGH!

No reason to burn FF miles to get there ;)

Of course I'd have to spend the night somewhere and use Marriott Bonus Bucks (or earn some). :D

JP

I'm game. I love CHS.

I'd recommend the Embassy Suites or one of the other Hilton properties downtown for the Do.

We have always wanted to visit Charleston and would make a serious effort to attend if we were available. We went to Greenville a couple of weeks ago and we loved it.

Do you think you could wait until October? We don't do heat very well. ;)

Come on now, even I'm Canadian and I can handle the summer heat in SC (NOT!) :) But seriously, everything is AC'ed in CHS!

Is the OP ready to propose a date?

JP

Interested but will watch the thread as my dates couldn't work until probably sometime after Labour Day (note how it's spelled as I'm also Canadian though love the heat:cool:).

After LABOR day it does get cooler (slowly but surely)... So it won't be 105F :D

JP

The buildings are AC'd, but carriage rides would still be outside.

I dunno...I don't really consider CHS hot. The weather is CAE is much worse.

I'll second that, I live in CAE!

My problem with CHS is that the carriage rides have horses which, well, you know, "go"... mixed with 95F+ weather... Oye caramba!

JP

Walking around outside and exploring is half the fun of visiting a new city, and we Seattleites don't do well in temperatures over 80. Therefore, we tend to stay home in the summer or contain our visits to places like Vancouver, San Francisco, or Anchorage which share similar cool summers.

We don't do well in the cold either. We are such whimps. :D

I retreat to the pac northwest, bellevue and the san juans in the summer to visit my family out in Washington! I would LOVE to host a fall DO but I am on the road from Sep 10-November 15th......I know the summers are god awful hot but that is my free time :(
So, let me propose a few time frames

1) a Charleston BEACH DO! June 15th. 2008?

2) a Charleston CHRISTMAS DO December 2008?

3) a Charleston Spring DO- March 2009?

Ya'll tell me!

bump......any takers for the 3 choices?:D

June 15th I'll be at a beach in NC. Christmas maybe?

June 15 is best for me. Xmas is probably BKK for a wedding. Spring 09 is a bit too far. What about before you're going on the road....say beginning of Sept?

drew

For us, March 2009 would be best. Late March so as to not interfere with our early March ski trip to Switzerland. ;)

I could do the BEACH DO or sometime in early September before you go on the road. I graduate from USC on December 15th (and leave SC) so the Christmas DO and Spring DO are a no-go for me.

I'm open for all 3.

JP

Right now I would not be able to make 15Jun as I do not have Su. off. However if I'm lucky I may be able to get Sa & Su off. Will know after noon on Thurs when we bid our sched. eff 2Jun.
Pick a day & if I'm off will be there even if I just have to fly down & back same day.

Labor day weekend in September?? That can work for me--still warm while all you yankees up north start to get cold :) :)

Of the dates suggested, I have to vote for a Spring Do only because the other dates are already taken.

How about April 17, 2009? Azaleas in bloom and lower humidity.

I love Charleston but, like Punki, Bay Area-ites are weather wimps too, and so summer for me is definitely out (it's not the heat, per se, but that gosh-awful humidity y'all have down there).

I vote for springtime. As PDX_Roy says, the flowers are in bloom and it is really lovely at that time of year (Middleton Place, Magnolia Plantation). My second choice would be around Christmastime.

So, we are very possibly interested, depending on the date.

I know someone who does ghost tours in CHS. I don't know how long he plans to stay at that job, but figured I'd throw the idea out there.