{"id":615,"date":"2009-07-25T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/beach-trip-part-1\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T16:57:00","slug":"beach-trip-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/beach-trip-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"beach trip &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from the annual beach trip with my room-mate and his family to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Surfside<\/span> Beach in South Carolina.    I took some notes, so&#8230; here it goes.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>7\/10\/2009 &#8211; the drive down.   Took 10 hours straight through and we stayed at the Day&#8217;s Inn the first night since we couldn&#8217;t get into the condo yet.   I drove about 2\/3 of the way and was tired and cranky when we finally arrived &#8211; and even more so with the stupid slow elevators.   <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>7\/11\/2009 &#8211; I woke up in time to witness a very slow and boring car accident from the balcony.   Two cars, pulling out at the same time, slowly backed into each other.   There was minimal damage and no one was hurt, so it was pretty funny. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We got moved into the condo and I noted that the owners had free wireless set up.  I vowed to resist the urge to set it up and connect to the &#8216;net.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also hit the ocean for my first swim of the trip.   It&#8217;s hard to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">gauge<\/span> the distance, but I know in the pool I can do a lap in just over a minute at my normal speed.   36 laps equals a mile, so I decided that if I can do 45 minutes in the ocean, I&#8217;m pretty confident that I&#8217;m doing at least a mile.  So:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"color:#000066;\"><b>45 minute ocean swim<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That night, I woke up at 3:30 in the morning and snuck out to the beach to do some streaking.   Hey, it was very late and no one else was around.   When else am I going to do it?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>7\/12\/2009<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The EPA was conducting a survey on the beach about water quality &#8211; and with the lure of a free tote bag and a check for $25 &#8211; how could I say no?  Actually, I would have done it for free, but they had a grant and a process.    I hit the water twice &#8211; and was very tired out when I was done.  So:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold; \">45 minute ocean swim<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"color:#000066;\"><b>45 minute ocean swim<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"color:#000066;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>7\/13\/2009<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The whole group when to Angelo&#8217;s for dinner.    Later, we played a card game called &#8220;screw your neighbor&#8221;.  There&#8217;s some <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">strategy<\/span> and luck involved &#8211; and I managed to win $9.   Yea!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Earlier in the day I hit the ocean for a swim and got rained on.  I didn&#8217;t stop of course &#8211; I was already wet.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold; \">45 minute ocean swim<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-6136489307156903468?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from the annual beach trip with my room-mate and his family to Surfside Beach in South Carolina. I took some notes, so&#8230; here it goes. 7\/10\/2009 &#8211; the drive down. Took 10 hours straight through and we stayed at the Day&#8217;s Inn the first night since we couldn&#8217;t get into the condo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}