As much as you have wanted to visit the Hangar Hotel, you definitely
made the right decision about the direction of your vacation. We're
about 70 miles east of Fredericksburg, and here's a synopsis of what
we've enjoyed lately.

Sunday: solid IFR, light rain. Sunday night-Monday morning:
tremendous lightning (a sky-ground strike claimed a home near us),
torrential rains, high winds. Rain total for this event 3.47".
Monday: solid IFR, some rain. Tuesday: more rain, IFR, breaking in
the afternoon to broken clouds for awhile. Last night: light rain.
0844 this morning: solid IFR, fog, mist. Temps all this time are in
the high 60s - low 70s.

Myrtle Beach is definitely better. We used it as a "cross-country"
destination when I was doing my IFR training in Florence. Well, sort
of. It would be 1130, and my buddy would say, "I don't think we've
done your cross country yet. Guess we'd better fly to Myrtle Beach." I
think we did this maybe four times when we were really hungry. The
crew car was always ready at KCRE, and the staff was great.

I will never think of Myrtle Beach but what I'll see the ducks walking
on the backs of the carp when you throw fish food into the canals
they've developed. Really odd.


Michael
Grumman 46U