December at Myrtle Beach State Park

After spending time hopscotching between the 3 local Walmarts, the State Park is offering 1/2 price monthly rates for Dec-Feb.

 There is even a Dog Park withing walking disance!

 

 

And if we're not in the Park we're meeting friends on the Beach

The Sunrises are Beautiful here

 

I usually have the beach to myself to look for seashells

Then there are the Birds 

Tucson also likes to take the Nature Trail to the Beach

 

He also likes the Horses that ride on the Beach as they leave tasty treats behind

 

 Had some beautiful skies.

 

and plenty of photo ops

 

They even have a very nice Art Museum

Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum

Plus while I'm here I get to finish the Baltimore Painted Screen for my sister

 It was a nice place to spend Chistmas

 My stay ended January 1st.  I headed out to parts unknown.   Thought maybe I would do the month stay at either Hunting Island or Edisto Beach.  As I leave the campground the RV starts making a funny noise.  I pull into the parking lot and check under the hood and the drive belt is shredded.  After much negotiation with the Park they allow me to spend the night in the parking lot as I don't want to be towed on New Years Day.

The day after new years I get towed to Larry's Automotive.  After a few hours they finally determine it is the Harmonic Balancer.  They call Ford and are told it is no longer manufactured and there are none left on the planet.  The prospect of living in the repair shop

Parking lot is not appealing.  Fortunately, my friend Lynn in Florence offers to come get me and let me stay at her house until the repairs are done.  One week later a part is found and I get the call that it is fixed.  Rather than have poor Lynn drive me back (she worked  6 long days that week) a friend I met in Myrtle Beach also named Lynn, offered to come get me.   Such nice people I know and meet!

Lynn had me over for dinner and I parked in the driveway next door for the night.    

$650 poorer I hit the road.   Decide to stop one last time at Huntington Beach State Park.

Stop in Florence SC to visit my friend from high school Lynn.  Prime Parking spot.

Tucson makes a new friend, Sophie

 

And he loves Annie!

While here I go take the drug  test for starting work at Amazon in Campbellsville KY on November 3rd.    I head out to KY and get less than 2 hours from Florence when I get a call from Amazon saying I can't start because they don't have my test results.  It's Friday and I call the lab, but they are aready closed so I have to wait till monday.   Instead of turning back to Florence I stay at Lee State Park for a couple of nights.   Monday I call Lab and discover that they issued the same ID number to me and another person and my results were sent in under their name to another company.  They tell me that I don't need to come back for another test that they'll call the Lab and have my results sent to Amazon.  I tell them to do it ASAP as I've already lost a week of work.

I call Amazon Wednesday afternoon to check that they got it.  I am told I was listed as a no-show and cannot work there this season.  Great!  That's approximately $6,000 I won't have to get me through the winter.   So I turn around and head back to Myrtle Beach to pound the pavement.  

I finally land a job at A.C. Moore for the Holiday Season.

After stopping to visit friends in Carolina Beach, NC.  

We catch the Ferry from Fort Fisher to Southport, NC.