Pawleys Island Visit (Dick and Tharleen Kinsey)

3/8/2009 - 3/11/2009

We stayed at Huntington Beach State Park just south of Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet SC. This is a lovely and relatively inexpensive state park that has full hookups on a number of sights and is right on the beach. A real value that the locals have discovered. I would suggest that you make reservations well in advance if your heading this way, especially during the peak seasons. This is probably the nicest state park we have been in and all of the campsites are nice.

We arrived on 3/8 and after setting up Dick and Tharleen visited us at the park for the five o'clock tradition, then we headed to Murrells Inlet for a light dinner. The next day I played golf with Dick and two of his neighbors. While my golf wasn't the best, the company was great. If you are a golfer this is a nice area to keep you challenged for some time. I forget how many courses there are in the immediate area, but it's a load.

In the afternoon Dick and Tharleen drove us all around the area to show us the highlights. If you stay south of the Honkey Tonk of Myrtle Beach this is a marvelous area. Many great restaurants and plenty of beach. The island part of Pawleys Island is old and totally developed and reminds me very much of Emerald Isle. Beautiful beach's and relaxing atmosphere. The following day we continued our touring and had a marvelous dinner at the Kinsey residence. Dick and Tharleen have a great house and a nice active neighborhood.

We were very impressed with the many amenities, shopping, and comfort of this area. I know I wouldn't want to be in Myrtle Beach, but you are close enough that you can use the shopping and dining when the mood hits you.

We would like to thank Dick and Tharleen for there wonderful hospitality. It was great seeing you guys again. Please stay in touch and save some time for a visit up north before we depart for the south. We very much enjoyed our visit.

The next two posts will be a few of the pictures we took in the Pawleys Island/Myrtle Beach area during our brief visit.

Life is Great!!!!

Bill and Eileen

I'm Baaaack!!

I promised I would try to do better with the day to day on the blog this trip but it just didn't happen. We have been visiting friends since we left Emerald Isle and didn't have a decent wi-fi until we bought a verizon card at the FMCA rally in Perry Ga.

Our travels have taken us to Myrtle Beach/Pawleys Island area to visit Dick and Tharleen Kinsey (a former Bard colleague and his lovely wife). We then moved on the Hilton Head to visit former Snellville Ga. neighbors and world class pinochle players (Steve and Kathy Strelcheck).

We then moved on to Perry Ga. where we attended The Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) International Convention with Chip and Barbara Massa (RV friends that we met last year in Salt Lake).

After Perry we spent three days exploring St. Augustine Fla. before we moved on to "The Villages" in central Florida to visit former neighbors from Amherst NH (Tom and Mary Ellen Quinn) who own a vacation home in this marvelous place.

Today we moved on to Ft Lauderdale to reunite with Chip and Barbara for some fun on their home turf. When I get the time I will post some pictures from each of our visits and give a brief outline of the campgrounds and the areas we visited.

It has been marvelous rekindling old friendships and getting to know our new friends. We have also been using this trip to explore other areas of the East Coast that we might consider for our retirement home. We love Emerald Isle but we owe it to ourselves to check other areas out. With our wonderful children on opposite ends of the country we could live almost anywhere.

I will start tomorrow with an overview of our SC visits. It is great to be away from the cold I wish we didn't have to go back.

Lovin Life!!

Bill and Eileen