South of the border is awful. Buckees is OK but an acquired taste.

You might be better off stopping in Raleigh Durham or Charlotte or Charleston or just going a little out of your way to a major city in North Carolina or South Carolina on your way down.

The airport. Long drives are the worst!

Anonymous wrote:+1 on South of the Border

Don’t waste your time. The place has been dead for decades. Everyone stops at Buc-ees now.

+1 on South of the Border

Savannah is lovely.

My immediate smart ass thought when I read your title though was South of the Border. I remember being fascinated by the signs as a kid.

agree with Jekyll island - it doesn't feel as far off the path as some of the other beaches. my other suggestion is near the cape fear botanical garden.

If you’re looking for better-than-average quick stops, Buc-ees in Florence and the Florida Welcome Center.

If you are just looking for something interesting for a day or two. Charleston. Bluffton. Savannah. Tybee island. Jekyll island.

Or take a different route. We like driving through Charlottesville.

How much time will you have? I’d do a stop in Hilton Head if you could add in a couple of extra hours to play and explore there.

We never found anywhere better than Charleston to break the journey.

If you are movie buffs look for places where your movies were filmed

Most years we drive from Rockville down to Florida. We usually break the drive down into a couple nights so we can do something on the journey. The past few years we have been stopping at colleges (ie U of SC, Elon/Duke, Charleston). Now that the college decisions are done, anyone have suggestions of somewhere interesting to stop along the way on I-95 S?