Day 129 fun breakfast! Then on to North M.B.

We met up with Pam and Del W. at Osprey Marina at 8:00 am and headed off for a fun breakfast. As I said yesterday, Pam was my date for the 1961 Lorain High School Prom. Del went to the same school though was in a class a half year ahead of Pam and me. Del and I talked about it, but we agreed that we had never met. Not too surprising since it was a big school. If I remember correctly, about 1200 students started the 9th grade, which was still in junior high but only about 350 graduated. Many quit as soon as they could to get high paying jobs at Ford or US Steel. 

Here we are telling "lies" at breakfast. We had lots of memories to share and many friends in common to remember. It was interesting to hear about why they chose this area to retire. It seem that less winter but still having four seasons is what attracted them to the area. Okay, now I know that you have all been waiting for this....

Here is the before and after picture... Pam's mother took the picture on the right in her living room when I picked her up. Yup, that's me about 45 pounds ago...

     After an enjoyable breakfast, it was time to head north from the southern edge of Myrtle Beach to North Myrtle Beach. It is only 20 miles, but it included 8 bridges. 

All of the bridges were fixed with about 65 feet of clearance, except for the Socastee (sock'-ass-tee) Bridge, which opened promptly after calling on the radio. This was one of the nicest looking steel bridges that we have passed. Quite often they are very rusty or painted black at best. For about half of the trip the waterway was very narrow (about 200 feet) and tree lined so that it was kind of "tunnel" like.

One unusual sight was this aerial tram over the waterway. When I first saw the cable car on the right, I thought those look like golf bags hanging on both sides... Sure enough, this is a golf course with the parking on the right (east) side of the waterway and the golf course on the left (west) side. This one definitely goes in the file of "classic" pictures.  

The last picture shows Lucky Us docked at Barefoot Marina on the west (mainland) side of the waterway. Barefoot Landing across the waterway has several large areas of shops and restaurants, and part of this can be seen lighted up to the right.