Damn! I'm gonna be in the area through the 15th, so no meetups. You want to:
* Browse the slave market (now known by the more PC name, Charleston Market)
* Forts Sumter & Moultrie
* Patriot's Point
* Stroll the Battery and check out the awesome, ante-bellum houses of Rainbow Row
* See the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to be used in war (Civil War, of course)
* Check out the aquarium
* Shopping and eating is at King St. and Meeting St.
* Go north up US 17 to McClellanville and eat at the Crab Pot. It's a hole in the wall, but has AWESOME seafood –– long-time, local favorite.
* While you're driving up and down US 17, check out the Gullah sweetgrass basket makers along the roadside
* On the way up or down, see Paris Island in Beaufort. You may still be able to get a visitor's pass for Thursday or Friday. I think they offer tours (been a while, and I was there on busines
).
* Take a ghost tour –– old city, lots of fun creepiness (Google - I'm sure there are lots of different tours)
That's off the top of my head. I'll post more as I remember things. Have fun!