Let's start a pool about what (or whom) Sanford was doing "in the Appalachians"

[NightWatcher]

My bet is a buxom blonde bimbo named something like Amber Appalachians known for her "Smokey Mountains"

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. He took a plane out of Atlanta.

http://www.wyff4.com/news/19837234/detail.html

This should be good.

[dgibby]

2. Something tells me we going to find this entertaining before it's over.

I've always thought there was something really wrong with this guy. Now he's removing all doubt.

I've been looking for other instances of erratic behavior. I remember him taking the pigs into the Statehouse after a budget argument with the legislature, but I can't find anything else (except the fight over the stimulus money). Can you think of anything?

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. Not really.

I've always thought he was slice short of a full loaf. He was one odd duck.

[rvablue]

6. Good, indeed!

Do they not have airports in South Carolina?

Why hop in one of your security detail's SUVs and drive all the way to Atlanta to catch a flight -- all on the DL?

Isn't Atlanta a big hub for international flights?

[sasquatch]

3. They don't call'em Log Cabin Repiglicans for nothing

That's my prediction.

[CJCRANE]

4. They should be worried about him

if he really has gone hiking in the wilderness and was never heard of again!

[loyalkydem]

7. Isn't this

The first time a sitting governor disappeared like this without telling anyone? I smell a rat.

[Missy Vixen]

9. Christine Gregoire of Washington State was unavailable for a couple of days either earlier this year

or late last year. She was in Iraq. The state was not left unprotected, however. I believe the Lieutenant Governor was in charge, everyone knew she was gone, and the only reason her destination wasn't initially announced was security considerations.

-MV
resident, state of Washington

[Warpy]

8. This story gets fishier and fishier

and I keep flashing on "The Death and Life of Reginald Perrin."

Rossiter was better looking than the pinched and uptight governor, though.

[corpseratemedia]

10. ..

:popcorn:

drip drip

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Today's Truthiness poll asks that very thing ...

http://www.wikiality.com/Poll#June_23.2C_2009

[XemaSab]

12. He was on a canoe trip

n/t

[Scurrilous]

17. Cue the banjo music. n/t

[ProgressiveFool]

13. I thought it was already established that he was hiking in the nude? /nt

[Stevenmarc]

14. He was doing a super duper secret bears shitting in the woods study

[loyalkydem]

15. Ewwwa

That's a image that I didn't want to imagine

[kentuck]

16. My bet is...

that it is a cute little stewardess that flies into Atlanta on Delta Airlines, about 30 years old, petite and cute. :-)