MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA (OCT. 25, 2009)

It was a bit on the cooler side this morning, so Luanne did a bit of washing and house cleaning before we drove to Costco to replenish depleted stores…
It’s been a while since we dropped in on one of our favorite stores, but, even so, we managed to get out of there without busting our budget…
It’s a temporary setback, ‘cause we decided to wait until tomorrow (Monday) to purchase needed goods, since the meat department will probably be in a “fresher” state then…
Anyway, from there, we went straight to the beach…
The Old Myrtle Beach, that is…
Found out that the beach we were at yesterday was North Myrtle Beach…
They are two different areas, except, of course, they share a sixty mile stretch of sand…
SIXTY miles!!! Can you get your brain around that?
Even though it’s an easy-walking, wide and wonderful, fine sandy beach, that’s still a long walk…
Well, you know the story by now…
We spent a couple of hours splashing our way along the surf line, looking for that perfect shell…
Don’t know if we found it, but Lu had another bagful by the time we got back to the truck…
I swear, Per Arne, you might be right: I’ll have to buy another truck (or trailer) by the time we leave the beaches in Florida…
We had overcast when we started out this morning, so we didn’t take any sun block with us, which made us abandoned the beach by about 2:00, when the sun was beginning to take it’s toll on us…
Home to rest, then off to explore some more…
Stopped at quite a few souvenir shops (looking for another T-shirt and some beach chairs), but didn’t find anything suitable, so we just drove around… Looking at anything and everything…
You can probably get an idea of what we did by looking at our pictures:
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Stopped at Chestnut Hill Restaurant and made reservations for tomorrow, then home to have dinner and to watch news on TV (something we haven’t done for a while)…
It’s 9:30, and Lu just went to bed, while I’m here sweating out a Blog… Life’s just not fair!
Well… Maybe it ain’t so bad, after all… I’m done, and so are you!
Take care, and please keep an eye out for us…