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myrtle beach,

okay, the other day i was thinking about how awesome this trip has been, how unusual it has been and how happy i am each morning once i realize where i am. and i tried to write about that, but it didnt work out. there hasnt been too much going on recently, just hanging out in myrtle beach, sneaking into the hotels and commandeering their hot tubs, pools and lazy rivers. i left myrtle beach yesterday and came to charleston, sc.

charleston has a real nice bridge that leads to it. lets see, before i went on this trip, even so far on it, i have been saying that i had been to all the lower states aside from maine. now i think i was wrong. i am really not sure i have ever been to south carolina. or even north carolina. but now i have.

something that triggered this was when i was walking around downtown charleston yesterday and there were tons of palms and a few orange trees and tropical things like that. i never even knew myrtle beach was in sc until i saw it on this trip. and i was walking around, aside from the accents of the people, south carolina could be southern california. the forests are different (where they exist) but the climate is the same and the beaches and the palms and fruits and things of that nature.

so, this morning, i got to thinking about my trip and its eventual end. something that i am mixed about. i know it has to end but i am unsure if i will ever be ready for it. so i sat and looked at the map for a bit and have decided my general route for the rest of the trip. the basics of it are that i plan to travel about 7000 more miles (which might put me over 20000 for the trip) over the next 80 or so days. that will put me back in pdx somewhere in the middle of february. i will not be going to key west or brownsville (two early goals of the trip). i will end up visiting a few states that i have already seen (ca, nm, az, or, wy) and should end up seeing 42 of the 48 states on this trip. money, as always, will be tight. using these calculations and the amount of money i have left i really will be on a $10 or less per day budget. luckily that does not include gas.

in other news, the weather down here is beautiful. i dont need all these heavy blankets any longer, i can sleep with the window open and i dont need to sport my hoodie any longer. this way i can show off my tattoos and people think i am tough and they dont fuck with me. really, most of the time, i forget that i even have tattoos on my arms. i got my first one when i was 19 and my last one when i was 22 - seven years ago. when i see them they just dont even register because they have been there for so long.

i dont know if i plan to get more (or finish the ones that are already on my body). i have designs and ideas for what i want, but i certainly dont want to spend more money on these things that i will forget about in a couple years, but also never be able to forget about. sometimes i wish that i had never gotten tattoos in the first place but i say that with them here to stay. if i had never gotten any i certainly

south carolina

would have been saying now that i wish that i had when i was younger. it is a conundrum.

in other news, my camera has been acting up on me and all of the photos i took in north carolina have been lost. not that there were many, but now there are none. and i havent taken too many here is sc. i need to work on that. but, there seems to be less and less things that are deserving of being remembered forever in photography. most of the things i see i have seen before, and i dont really have any use to take pictures of monuments or museums or things like that. eh. i will figure it out. hopefully i am in pensacola by the time the month turns.