Right now, we are on the 2nd day of the big trip to Darlingon, Sc. I had planned on posting a few days ago, my intention to post a daily update off the trip, but between work, and getting ready for the trip, never got a fighting chance to log into the blog..
So now..Day 1)
Road, Food, road, road, road, road, road, road, food, road, road, bathroom, road..You get the point..We drove from Toledo, to Mytle Beach Sc in a little less then 16 hours.. according to Mapquest, the trip should take 14 hours..and I know we lost 1 hour atleast, eating at the Iron Skillet..Not sure what happend to the 2nd..Anyways..We came staggering into hotel at Mytle Beach, around 10:00 last night.. and went to sleep pretty quickly. ..Nothing real exciting happened on the trip..we did make a quick visit to the race track in rockingham, nc (which now I think about it, that may explain some of the time). Disapointing if you ask me..They are keeping some of the track maintance up, but they still have the signs from the last race posted in 2004. Also, the camp ground accross the street that we stayed at when we were there, is overgrown, and pretty much no longer functioning. Agian...some what Disappointing
Day 2) Good and pretty much crappy..First the good, we made it to the beach..Christy, who never saw the ocean, loved it. While we were there she got to hold a small live shark..(see pics below) that some one had caught. (for the record the shark was thrown back)
Now the day goes into the crapper.
(did I mention it was bike week)
1) I was driving the van, and allmost tossed Christy into the front, outta of her chair..My fault..We were looking for a beachside resteraunt to eat, and I was paying more attention to the buildings and not the road..Looked up and saw a light about 2 feet (ok..it seemed like 2 ft) in front of me was red..but once we recovered everything was ok..
2) We did finaly found a place to eat..called Grandma's....Don't recomand it..Food was..well..Ok at best. .and I'll leave it at that..While we were getting out of the van, we heard a loud bang.. I wasn't sure if it came from a van, of some building behind where we were at..I checked the tires and didn't see anything wrong..so we went about our day...after "breakfast" we went to a couple tourst traps, and discovered that the lowering system wasn't working on the van.. After some looking, I discovered that the master link that connected a chain to the chassis of the van broke, So Tomorrow before we go to the races we are I'm going to hopefully repair that.Thank good I brought my tools.
3) Next after leaving the beach, going to another trourist trap, and then after calling makeing reservations, and then conferming that they are wheelchair access room at the hotel we are staying at for the races, they tried to stick us onto a second floor room because the reservation didn't have anything on them.. The clerk did get us to switch with another person who checked it. So after showing my displeasure to the staff, it did get resolved.
4) Spilled my dinner on the hotel room floor.
6) Followed a pig truck about 3/4 of the way from the beach to the 2nd hotel.
To honest..we were not impressed with Mytle Beach..But both my Christy and myself feel that if we had more time to spend there we may like it better.
Also, the wireless connection is flakely..so I'll try my best to post, but if the connection pukes, then I'm sunk.
Untill tomorrow
:)
Now some picks.
