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My friend John is a lawyer from Greenville who works now as a public defender in Walhalla, SC. Walhalla is one of those quaint southern towns that is on the road to everywhere but reached most often on intentional journeys. In other words, it’s not really anyone’s idea of a destination point, but once you see it, you’re liable to stop if for no other reason than the Steak House Cafeteria’s southern fried chicken.
I think the Steak House Cafeteria owner is originally from Iran, which makes this even sweeter for people like me. I love cafeterias and I love my wife, and don’t get me started on fried chicken.
Walhalla leads to the mountains, too, and resorts like Cashiers and Highlands, NC, offer beautiful stays, though no fried chicken or…
In the opposite direction, and again, accessible in so many ways that it seems as if someone planned this though no one much would ever tell you to go there, is Seneca, SC. Unlike Walhalla, Seneca’s “downtown” features boarded up former storefronts and a few strip malls featuring “antiques.” I hear there’s a good Middle Eastern restaurant there, too, but I didn’t divert my path to find it, since my path was focused on a certain business, a most…