Charleston, SC

NEW (3): Access Portable Toilets, Inc., Potty Gurl, Waste Services

Port City. We came rolling in pretty late on the ole Silver Meteor and it was impossible to get a ride into town. The sky was dumping rain and it doesn't help that this city is so sprawled out either. If you built a replica of their metropolitan statistical area in SimCity, I'm guessing the game over screen would appear immediately. I don't really remember how that game is played, however.

We finally made it to our hotel. It's pretty nice for what we had to throw down. Don't sleep on that T-Mobile travel discount, baybeeee. The neighborhood seems rather lively for a weekday, and we find a posh little cocktail joint and start chatting up the locals for the deets on what to check out. After throwing down some idiosyncratic cocktails, we come across our first new brand [Access Portable Toilets, Inc.] in a dimly lit parking lot on our way back for the night. I'm unable to properly document it until the morning.

Now I always knew this town was a legend in the cuisine game, but I had no idea how hard it is to actually find somewhere to eat. Every decent restaurant there's a wait, or a list booked a month in advance, or a wait to get on a list, and then you wait some more. Even the casual eateries had queues like a two Michelin star operation. My girl and I both love seafood, so we heard 167 Raw was a must. Walk-ins only, and it was a mere hour forty-five minutes of wait. No problem, we went on a hunt and were met with great success again finding, [Potty Gurl], a division of Trash Gurl known in the area for their bright purple dumpsters, and now offering porta potties.

We got the call to head back to 167 Raw, and man I never really say this, but it was absolutely worth the long hang time. The food was fantastic. We went hog wild. Red snapper ceviche, a daily crudo, fried oysters, tuna tataki, grilled fish tacos and a dozen raw oysters with a salsa verde accoutrement that was like nothing I've ever shoveled on shellfish before.

The next morning, I went searching for a local coffee roaster, and came back with a bacon jam bfast sammy and [Waste Services], the third and final new brand of the trip. Not a super memorable name, but the yellow, green and black color scheme played.

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