For our honeymoon we will be going to South of the Boarder located in sunny South Carolina
South Of The Border (or SOB, as it's known to insiders) is a unique amalgam of Dixie and Old Mexico. At first you wonder what all this Mexican stuff is doing in South Carolina, thousands of miles from its natural habitat. But in a remarkably short time you'll accept SOB as a neon yellow and pink Tijuana, with the added benefit that its inhabitants speak English and its water is safe to drink.
The lovable mascot of the place is pedro, a grinning mustachioed caricature topped with an outsized sombrero. It is pedro who speaks from the billboards. It is pedro who straddles the SOB entrance, 97 feet tall, "the largest freestanding sign east of the Mississippi." You can drive between his legs.
Once parked by "The Big Fella," a visitor can venture into Mexico Shop East -- West being across the street -- and pick up any one of figuratively millions of souvenirs. Quantity rules, with, for example, eight types of backscratchers and twenty-two types of coffee mugs. Rifle through bins of address books and shot glasses. "Bins" is no exaggeration, as the fourteen different gift stores are all packed with thousands of each type of gewgaw and doodad.
