Travel

I had forgotten what a big pain in the ass it is to upload photos via dial-up or even DSL. I wrote and extremely long post with several photos all averaging around 500k each. Once it started the upload I cancelled it. Once I get back home and can post it at a decent speed I will do so.

I will most likely make it home on Tuesday afternoon at some point. I don’t know if these jokers will post any more between now and then but I have certainly been entertained down to the roots of my bald fucking head.

Haven’t made it to the island yet although I think we are going this morning. I’m ready to get my pale legs out on the beach. I should be able to scare us up some room with my white whale belly.

We arrived in Bluffton about 5:30 yesterday afternoon and hooked up with our friend Niqui and her family and dragged them all to some buffett place for dinner. I am usually pretty leery about eating at places like that but this was damn good. I had mostly seafood and stuffed myself. I even had the chance to try some of that low country boil that Catfish always talks about. Pretty good. It’s like gumbo without the spiciness. There was spice, it’s just not quite as hot as I was expecting.

Going out to dinner with her and the clan is always interesting. It was the wife and I and our two girls as well as Niqui and her five children that still live at home. Anytime you walk in someplace with seven children people scatter. Don’t know what it is.

As I said, we are heading to the island within the hour and will spend the day there. We may go by the Art Cafe for awhile as well if it gets too hot at the beach. The Art Cafe is one of those places where everyone goes and paints pottery and then it gets fired. That’s Niqui’s place.
I got to sleep until about 7:30 this morning, which is pretty late for me. It was nice to get a full eight hours of sleep all in one shot. Not used to that.

At some point in the day I will give the VMan a call, as I think we are going to get together for dinner and maybe a few drinks. Niqui suggested a place where her daughter works but it sounds pretty nice and I don’t know how well they will take to us sitting there for several hours.

I just figured I would post an update to how we are doing. I will hopefully have pictures and stuff to post later.

We’re almost to Macon. My ass hurts so we swapped out and the wife is going to drive for awhile. A little over a third of the way I guess.

This will at least by last post of the weekend where I am actually at home. There will be at least some semi-regular brain farts though. I have a few posts scheduled for the next couple of days and as I mentioned previously there is a crack team of 1000 monkeys on 1000 typewriters that just can’t wait to make me a million. I will also be bound to post lots of cell phone photos, and I am taking the laptop with me as well as my iPaq because taking crack away from a junkie is just not a good thing to do. The only promise I can make is that I won’t blog while taking a shit but since I have already broken THAT promise I am not even legally liable for that either.

I am looking forward to driving to Hilton Head tomorrow. We were going to leave in the morning, but I have several things to take care of in the morning so it may be after lunch before we head out. I have a few more posts to write, so it really just depends on what time I get to bed.

Spoke with V-Man tonight and I think we may be getting together Saturday for dinner. Probably going to have the girls with me so I can’t get too god-awful tanked or anything. He said he would drive up to Bluffton so I am not sure whether we will meet there or in Savannah yet.

I do want to drive down to Savannah at some point in the trip as well. Even if all we do is site see, that’s OK. It really depends on which children and how many are with us as to what we do. I will just wait and see on that one.

Woot! I managed to get out of there at a decent time today. I will probably post about the day later, but the girls are at a friends house until fireworks tonight, which I will get to attend since they had the ones last night in the town where MY stores are. Very nice. I think I am going to nap now…

With the impending vacation it’s only appropriate that I come across this post sponsored by DialAFlight. DialAFlight has some pretty nice destinations at a reasonable price. As hot as it is I have been wanting to go someplace that is not quite as hot as it is here.

It’s pretty easy to book a flight and a great hotel and get away on one of their great New York weekend breaks. I’ve been to New York once but it has been quite some time. From what everyone I talk to says New York has cleaned up immensely and is once again becoming a very attractive vacation spot to visit.

This is a shot of Times Square. Man, it has changed a lot since I was there back in the eighties. At that point in time it was pretty nasty.

DialAFlight also has flights to Canada, which at this time of year is extremely beautiful. Much nicer than the 90 degree weather that I have been having. Talk about the dog days of summer. What we normally have as August temperatures moved in here last month and have yet to leave.

Above is an unknown lake (to me) and below is horseshoe falls, which is the biggest part of Niagara falls.

Although I said I want to go someplace cooler I will probably end up going to Hilton Head and be hot AND go to the beach. There area a couple of places I would like to eventually visit that are slightly warm right now and one is Johannesburg South Africa. Not quite among the coolest places around but I certainly wouldn’t give up a chance to go, no matter what time of year it is. Believe it or not there are fairly decent flights to Johannesburg. Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 40 largest cities in the world.

If you are flying out of Gatwick Airport obviously you are going to have to park somewhere. There is Gatwick Parking available but if you want to know your auto is safe and you can park cheap you want to go with Advance Parking. What’s nice is that there are several hotels withing walking distance of the airport so that Gatwick Hotel Parking is taken care of as well. It is getting harder to find spots now than it used to be. Parked cars around Gatwick Airport increased by almost 10% last year, so don’t play the Parking Game, just go with Advance.

You can also pre-book your parking at their website to guarantee a space when you arrive, pay online, and then just present your voucher at the car park. There is free transportation supplied to the airport terminal.

This post is sponsored by Advance Parking.

Fifteen days and counting. Damn, I will be counting every single day and I am sure they are going to drag. Other than hopefully getting together with some bloggers in Atlanta at some point that week I think we are going to go to Hilton Head. I haven’t gone the last few times that the wife and kids have visited but it looks like her friend that lived in Bluffton is getting ready to move to Cyprus before the year is out. It would be nice to see them at least once more before they move.

I am sure that we will hit Savannah at least once so if any of you folks down around that area want to get together for a beer or lunch, let me know. I don’t have any definite dates set up yet, just that I start on July 5th and have to be back at work on the 12th. We will probably be down there the 5th through the 8th and then come home that Sunday night or Monday morning.