Last Saturday, Bob and I left Needham, Massachusetts, to start our journey to Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, for our next housesit. We didn’t need to meet up with our new homeowners until Monday afternoon, so we spent a couple of nights on the road and even stopped in Alexandria, Virginia, on Sunday to have a quick breakfast with Bob’s brother and girlfriend.
Both days were a little over 6 hours of often stressful East Coast driving. There were a lot of people in lots of cars traveling during the end of summer/back to school weekend. Saturday’s trek took us through parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, and New Jersey before we landed at a Marriott brand hotel near the Philadelphia airport. Google Maps gave us wrong directions in New York City, so we spent more time there than we would have liked but otherwise no other real issues on the drives.
where we were to almost immediately cross
a 2nd bridge into New Jersey.
Didn’t happen immediately,
but Bob can now say he has driven in NYC.
We spent Sunday night in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, before driving about 3.5 hours into Murrells Inlet for our transition with the new homeowners. We had a great meet up with the homeowners Monday late afternoon, and they fixed us dinner.
They are both native New Yorkers, who moved permanently to South Carolina about 5 years ago. They are both active in a local community theater (He acts, and she stage manages). They are off on a cross country trip to see family in New York and then drive west to explore more of Utah and Nevada. They live in a lovely, quiet neighborhood in Murrells Inlet, which is just south of Myrtle Beach, with Squeegee, their 9 year old male rescue cat.
Squeegee likes to keep an eye on what’s going on in the ‘hood from the front door or the window in the study. He’s very quiet. He apparently only has something to “say” if the neighbor’s cat gets too close to the house.
The homeowners left about mid-afternoon yesterday after a doctor’s appointment. Before they left, they took us to a local place for breakfast (We treated since they had fixed us dinner.) and then showed us the location of a Marsh Walk. We went back there today after a walk this morning around a nearby subdivision.
in which we are staying
watching our walk.
This is a marshy area.
We feel like we’re likely to see an alligator
before the end of the sit.
The following are photos from the Marsh Walk, a boardwalk behind a number of restaurants and from which you can go on a number of different types of boat rides. A shop that we stopped into sold shirts that said, “Murrells Inlet, a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem.” You definitely have a number of opportunities to drink and fish along the Marsh Walk.
who helped establish the fishing industry
that the town depends on
on their charter filleted for them.
The pelicans were awaiting the cast off parts.
looking towards Myrtle Beach
Peckish Travels 