We left Hilton Head Island
last Friday and spent the weekend at the Joint Base Charleston family
campground. We last stayed there five years go and it was as nice as we’d
remembered. Our campsite was huge with a double-wide concrete pad and patio. We
just hung out and I had time to fix a few small things on the motorhome.
We left Charleston on Tuesday and headed up the road to
Myrtle Beach. Neither one of us had ever been to Myrtle Beach before. We had
reservations at Ocean Lakes Family Campground. We didn’t know what we were in
for before we arrived. The RV park is what we would describe as a “mega”
campground with 859 campsites and 2,567 annual lease sites on 310 oceanfront
acres. It has nearly a mile of beachfront on the Atlantic Ocean. We rented a
golf cart to get around.
The annual lease sites were a mix of a few RV trailers or 5th-wheels,
small beach cottages, and large beach homes. They were all very interesting to
see, including one that had an outside bar. We also saw several beach cottages
that were built around old travel trailers. The campground has 25,000 to 35,000
guests on any given day during the summer season.
Last night we visited the Myrtle Beach boardwalk and
promenade. It was an interesting area with all the souvenir gift shops, game arcades,
tee shirt shops, seafood restaurants, cafes, and many pancake houses. Myrtle
Beach sits in the center of a large and continuous 60-mile stretch of beach known
as the “Grand Strand”. It is a huge family vacation spot, attracting an
estimated 14-million visitors a year.
We knew that this Memorial Day weekend would be crazy busy anywhere
along the Eastern seaboard, so tomorrow, Friday, we’re literally headed for the
hills and a small RV resort in north western South Carolina.
Steve & Julie
Cornelius
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