Missed It By That Much

We were up before the sun to hunt the wily Post Office. First stop was the Citadel in the dim light of the pre-dawn sky. We didn’t see any building that might fit, so we looped in around the parade ground and back out vowing to return later.

We then snagged the 2 others in “downtown” and headed to the city marina where there was supposed to be a neat place to have breakfast. Only trouble was there was no place to park if you didn’t have a sticker or $12, so over the Cooper River (Arthur Ravenel Jr) Bridge to Mount Pleasant vowing to find another place to eat.

The first Mount Pleasant Post Office was an easy find, followed by Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island, but on the final leg of the loop the second Mount Pleasant PO proved elusive. We had an address, 401 W Coleman Blvd, Suite A and as we traveled along watching the numbers go down some sort of space warping occurred and there was 400 numbers on the odd side of the street (which we wanted) and 600 numbers on the even side. We pulled a u-turn and slowly cruised looking for a Post Office. we found a strip shopping center with an address of 409 but then there was construction and the numbers were back in the 600’s. One more u-turn and further down the street with both sides having 400 numbers we found 401 in a small strip. Suite A was a nail salon with a blue mail box outside. I looked inside and could see no other evidence of postal activity and figured the PO had probably moved on, but I took some photos anyway.

Breakfast was at a small place that I’m sure has been a restaurant of some sort since the place was built in the 60s. There was a local crowd, the service was great and the food was adequate. When I pulled out of the restaurant to head back towards Charleston I passed a place that had small signs by the road for UPS, FedEx, etc. Thinking that maybe that is where the PO had moved to I pulled in and seeing a small USPS sticker on the door took some photos vowing to check on the interweb when we got back in for the day.

For the record, neither place is the Post Office, the second Mount Pleasant PO is now in a different location altogether, which we passed, but didn’t see. There is some internal debate as to whether to go back and take a picture of it. For one it is against a rule made in the beginning to create a list and follow it, no fair updating it, or it might be like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, once you are done it is time to start over and two it would mean yet another trip over the Cooper River Bridge which beside crossing back and forth to get these 4 Post Offices, we made a second trip with the top down for the express purpose of me taking pictures.

Then we made a third round trip to go over and find the terminal of the Charleston Water Taxi at Patriot’s Point so we could take a cheap boat trip, $8 per for a round trip, and get some photos of the Charleston waterfront sights, i.e. aircraft carrier, that bridge, cruise ship, aquarium, etc. Wouldn’t you know it, but the Water Taxi is closed for the season, opens next weekend. We got in the car to drive for lunch, but the fine print on the bottom of the card of the Mediterranean restaurant Donna had picked out was closed on Saturday. We ended up at a seafood place on Shem Creek that was very good, but I still think we would have preferred a gyro.