Uncle Gator's Kiawah Adventures

To welcome in spring, 6 is thinking that is was about time that we started to blog about summer vacation. This blog 6 is going to take a trip back in history, to the first year our family joined the crew in Kiawah. To the best of my recollection it was in 2004, when the 6’s barged in and destroyed the calm serine, vacation of the original crew. To those in the original group,   6 say’s thank you and to those who say we destroyed it for them, well 6 says “get over it”, we are here. The tale begins on a hot humid Friday night, at dinner 6 laid out the ground rules for the vacation. As you all know 6 does not have many rules but the ones that he has are critical for the success of any vacation. (Remember this) Here were my ground rules:   (1) 6 needed help putting the roof carrier on the new truckster,   (2)   all bags have to be at the front door by NLT 8:00 pm EST, (3) food for the trip must be in the cooler and in the fridge by 9:00 PM EST,( 4) 6 needs so he...

Just got an email from beachwalker.. This is their 30 year anniversary, so they are offering a 30% discount on rentals for the next 30 hours! Let’s do a reality check on this one, first of all, you cannot figure out how to use it, second, I have already made my reservations, third, do they really expect that they are giving you the discount, or are the owners of the properties giving you the discount. I guess that is real nice of them to do that for us! They did the same thing last year so I gave them a call, and wanted to cancel my reservations, and re-book the same condo, using their “discount” and they told me that I could not do that! So this year expect a bunch of bottom feeders, surrounding us on the beach, what fun! What we will have is deeper holes on the beach, more tents, no respect of my personal boundaries, and of course gabby, cigar smoking, beer guzzling, shovel toten red necks.. on second thought that may not be too bad!   Granny gets on the truck!   The ...

Well as time goes on, we all get a little bit older, and I am sure some people even get a little wiser! Happy birthday! There are times when 6 thinks this winter will never get over, but just as everything winter also brings us a different way to look at life. If you think about nature, everything is soft and rounded with very few things with hard edges. Think about the sand on the beach vs. the hard asphalt we have to cross to get to the beach, or the soft curves of the trees, that we turn into wood to tear our poor feet apart as we walk on the boardwalk to the beach. The winter brings snow that covers and thus transforms the sharp hard man made objects into soft rounded with no edges just like life intends. We as humans tend to make everything to hard, thus cutting us at every corner, if our decisions are definitive, (yes means yes and no means no) just as the snow falls and makes the hard soft, and sharp rounded, we will stay on the correct path. For example:   Did you ...