Category: Adventures

I happened to find a Holiday Inn right on the beach. Not a block away from the beach or across the street – you could walk out of the pool area directly onto the sand and into the water. If you go, make sure to upgrade to the beach side of the hotel.  You can see and hear and smell the ocean from your room.

It looks like Myrtle Beach rivals Las Vegas for hotel numbers as the beach is mile after mile of highrise hotel buildings.  Surfside was much more home owner occupied.

There are 50 miniature golf courses in town, I have never seen anything like that.

We rented an umbrella to stay out of the direct sun and watched the waves all day long – like the video above.

There were also lots of birds and even goats on the shore.   The whole photo collection on shutterfly is here.

Egret hanging out looking for breakfast

Sunrise from the hotel room

We flew out to Charleston SC for a few days.  We spent a couple days in the Charleston area in the historical district and then spend a few more days south of Myrtle Beach.

Here are some pictures of the city.  We toured the old Yorktown aircraft carrier deployed in 1943 and then went downtown to see some pre-revolutionary buildings.

The whole photo collection on shutterfly is here.

The small town puts on a big 4th of July.  7am is a pancake breakfast followed by the Dry/Wet parade at 9am.  The first floats are dry like a normal parade.  The last half are wet floats who fire water cannons at the crowd and the crowd fires super soakers at the floats.  The antique airplanes start the parade with a flyover in formation.  Then an afternoon of food trucks at the park followed by fireworks.

Last year’s post is here.

Here is a cool video taken June 17 by a great father/son team at sin city outdoors

We haven’t biked down to the lake in a month or so as you really have to start early in the morning to get out of the sun and heat.

Kevin is currently attending the US Navy Boot Camp since 05/09/2022.

It was a hurry up and wait for all day long for both of us; typical military style.

He had waited for this day to come for over one year now – and finally his new voyage has begun.

Wishing him a very good luck and successful training – looking forward to seeing him in two months with a big smile on his face 🙂

The cactus in the yard seem to be doing well and flowering up a storm.

We went down to the lake to feed the ducks.  Saw lots of bass.  Stopped to check out the sheep on the way back.

So as they pump water out of Lake Mead and the water levels keep dropping, old debris shows up on the new shoreline.  Last week we made the news as a body was found in a barrel.  They estimate this was underwater since the 70s or 80s.  In this town, probably a gambling debt.

But as I was reading I saw the map – they found this latest barrel right where we go down and feed the ducks every Sunday.  Holy cow.  I went through my duck pictures and found a barrel in the same area.  My picture is farther inland so it may be a ‘different body’.  Yikes.

Tomoko had pictures of the BoA Vault that had been turned into a lounge.  Very swanky.  Those doors are awesome.

We were out of crackers for the ducks this week so we rode the other direction into Henderson.  22 miles in perfect temperature and weather.  Not too many bikers on the trail but LOTS of bikes in Bootleg canyon for the races this weekend.  I wish I live here when I was younger to learn how to race off road.