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With the exception of 1998, 1999 and 2003, we have spent every April
"spring break" since 1991 in Myrtle Beach. In 2001, we
bought a time-share at the Sheraton Broadway Plantation on Robert
Grissom Parkway. Our 2009 trip started on Thursday, April 9.
I dropped Marcia off at school that morning and then took the Mustang in
for some recall work and an oil change at the local Ford Garage.
The computer on the air bag control system needed to be
reprogrammed. I went home and packed the car and picked her up
when the school day was over. We were on the road south by 2:45.
As has been the custom for the past several years, we stayed the
first night at a Four Points by Sheraton in Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania. We were on the road by 7:30 the next morning and
arrived in Myrtle Beach around 4:30. Since this was Good Friday,
we postponed our traditional first night meal of pizza and beer until the
next night and ate at Mr. Fish, a little fish diner on Kings Highway.
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We spent the week doing our typical Myrtle Beach things. We
took in Broadway at the Beach a few times, including a performance of an
AC/DC cover band where we ran into friends from Gouverneur and a meal at
the Hard Rock Cafe. We strolled around Barefoot Landing and took
in the show "One" at the Alabama Theater. This is
actually the second time we have seen this performance and will go
again. We played
miniature golf at the time-share and at the Pirate Watch Course on Kings
Highway. This was actually a fairly challenging course but is
perhaps the worst maintained mini-golf course we have ever seen. This was our first Myrtle Beach visit with the Mustang and
spent a lot of time with the top down. We took a drive to Hilton
Head on Monday, April 13 for some lighthouse
viewing, spent an
afternoon touring a winery/vineyard and spent an hour or so at a place
called "Ragtops and Roadsters". This is a new car
museum/diner in the Murrell's Inlet area just south of Myrtle Beach.
We went there under the impression it was a museum with a diner in it,
which it used to be. When we were there, they were in the process
of changing into a diner with a classic car theme. We will go
there next year to eat and see what they have changed.
Usually, we make the 15-16 hour drive home in one day but this year
we decided to make it a casual two-day drive and take in some North
Carolina lighthouses. Our plan was to see a couple of inland
lighthouses on the Roanoke River but that morning we shifted gears and
decided to drive up the Outer Banks ... bad move! About 30 minutes
out of Jacksonville, we decided to check the schedule for the ferry to
Ocracoke Island. We were going to miss the last morning ferry by
15 minutes or so. The next ferry wouldn't leave for almost 3-1/2
hours and since it was a 2 hour and 45 minute trip, it would have been
almost 5 PM before we would get there. We turned around and went
back to Plan A. We went back and visited lights in Plymouth and
Edenton.
We stayed that night in Winchester, Virginia and made the rest of the
drive home the next day, Saturday, April 18.
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