I'm currently in Oak Island, one of the barrier islands (well, it probably isn't, but all the houses are on stilts and evacuation routes are clearly marked) on the east coast, North of Myrtle Beach.
This island is sandwiched between the Intercoastal Waterway ICW, and the Ocean. There are about 8 blocks of houses and commercial establishments in this area. The commercial guys are in the middle with the main road running all the way North and South. The length of this might be 6 miles or so, with the commercial being about 1 mile long.
The traffic an be an issue getting across the main drag. There are not a lot of lights to divide the traffic into packets. So it's dash to the middle of the lanes and work to get across.
The ICW is interesting as that's were all the vegetation is.
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There are crabs and shrimp stirring the water off these docks. There are parks that provide the odd dock for folks to hang out.
Oak Island is about an hour and a quarter from Elisabeth town. And a quick drive if you don't stop.
Speaking of cars and cards, I had 3 credit cards refused at the gas pump today. Quite interesting. I can see that if the electronic gods want to mess with you, it could b quite difficult to get back home. A change of pumps and I was good to go. As an added bonus, if you buy premium, it's doesn't have alcohol in it, an added bonus.
I had the rear tires balanced, didn't help with my car's Humm when underway. The tires look a bit warn, so I will not worry about it and just drive on my good sense of denial until I'm faced with more serious symptoms. I'll go back to worrying about my golf swing.
The mountains were nice and much cooler than E-town, 85 version the high 90s. The beach is 85 or so and it's overcast. But it's damp.
It took a long time to get down from the hills. There were a lot of us and with desperate wakeup times, we hanged 5.2 miles in the first hour and one half. The next ten miles were faster where we stopped to look at the Whitewater falls:
This stop was worth it. A short 1/2 mile hike to the overlook. The falls drop a long way. But it was too far to hear them. A pretty place.
Then we drove on, trying to make some miles.
We split near Colombia SC as we were going to stop for dinner and see Jess, Tanners girl friend. The Joe Grimes clan split for Grafton.
Post dinner, we took off for Elizabethtown. When the smoke cleared we got in about 9:50pm, for a run of about 350 miles and a total elapsed time of 10.5 hours, so 35 miles per hour?
We have rented a house on the island, getting back to the original story, that is one block back from the outer road on the ocean side.
Like most of the houses here it's on stilts for the inevitable flood or storm surge. It's on a single level, 4 bedrooms and 3 or 4 baths. Large living room/kitchen area. It looks to be comfortable and there are only 5 of us here at this point, so should be quiet except for the roar of the ocean.
Orange is the new black is now Barb's current addiction and we are banging through the episodes. An interesting show to me, but not really addictive.
We will sight see a bit and pick up Jay tomorrow. Golf soon, my fans, you can have the stroke by stroke details if you want. The Open is going on, but limited time on the TV, so it might be one I miss most of.
Beach, reading, Orange is new black, golf; the week beckons. There is also a duplicate game on Monday, so, might take that up depending on other items. It's been a long time since Barb and I hit the table.
The arrow keys are not working in this editor, so edits will be few and far between... Please excuse the typos!
Rich
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