Myrtle Beach, SC 2025

 

We got back from Myrtle Beach at 2pm yesterday, even though we were up at 5:00 am, left at 6:00 am, and should have arrived home at 12:30 pm.  REASON:  very slow-moving traffic from Asheville, NC to Tennessee, especially where they were fixing the roads due to rockslides.

By the time we unloaded the car, put everything away, turned everything on, plugged everything back in, mowed the yard, updated my two blogs, and ate a TV dinner, it was too late to do much of anything else but sit on the sofa, veg out, and wait until we were tired enough to go to bed.

Our seven nights - six days at South Myrtle Beach went by fairly slowly through Wednesday and it seemed to both of us that this just might be an unexpectedly long week.  However, the next three days went by quickly than stink on you know what, and the next thing we knew we were home, apologizing to our three cats for staying gone so long.

Myrtle Beach had not really changed much other than we saw new communities that had been built since we were last there, new restaurants replacing old ones, and not as much traffic as we had anticipated there might be.  The weather was damn near perfect for every day except for one and a half days where it was hot but no wind, or very little.

We had taken a large umbrella that we put into the ground beside the one we rented giving us more shade, but it took us a couple of days to realize we got more shade by putting the umbrella on the left rather than the right even though we overlapped the umbrellas.  We had enough shade now for three chairs.

Like always, we ate in a few really nice (and expensive for our budget) restaurants and the rest of the nights we ate in more budget friendly ones.  The only part of our vacation that bothered us was the condo we rented because it was not being properly maintained by its owners, and the service that the resort used to offer had declined as well.

We always rent a condo with a kitchen and separate bedroom, and we always make sure that condo is ocean facing.  We are considering looking for another condo next year, but we are still going to Myrtle Beach.