A word of advice, skip the cheap Sea Mist breakfast buffet. The only thing that was hot was the made to order omelet prepared by a almost surly woman. They didn’t have hot chocolate, so I skipped getting their coffee meaning that we could go to DD for dessert. We filled up the car and found an ATM.We couldn’t find any takers to join us on a trip to the flea market, so we went anyway and only shopped for a bit before giving up and going to lunch.
We went to the Dead Dog Saloon which was the place the Miata group was set to drive to, but just too late in the day for us. The traffic here is dense and stop and go for long sections of US17. This was another reason we were way early at the restaurant, if there is one thing more annoying than creeping along in bumper to bumper traffic, it is driving in a group in bumper to bumper traffic. We were actually in the middle of that bumper to bumper traffic going back to the hotel as the Miata group was going to the restaurant.
While they were eating, we were watching a movie in our room. Even that didn’t go as planned as about 3/4 hour in, the fire alarm in our building of the complex went off. The bright side of this, beside the place not burning down, was we learned that the sun had finally deemed to make an appearance. Unfortunately because of the long fire caused intermission we didn’t even finish the movie before it was time to line up for the afternoon drive to the New South Brewery.
We opted to go for this drive for a couple of reasons, one we were interested and two the route did not include any stretch of US17. The tour was very interesting and educational, not to mention tasty as we got to sample several of their craft beers.