Myrtle Beach Bound

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Monday was a travel day. We got started at around our usual 10:00a departure time from Charleston and arrived in Myrtle Beach about 1:00p. On the way here we were seeing the leftovers of the Bike Week that went on last week. Just before we got into Myrtle Beach we saw the "Girls Gone Wild" motorhome pass by heading south. I wish I had my camera handy.
The park we are in is top notch. You have your choice of beach, lake, or forest sites. With 1150 sites you have a good choice. We chose the lake and what a fine site it is. The site is probably 50 feet wide and plenty long to get the biggest rig into. Just down the row in front of us is the beach. We can either look out our front window and see the beach or out the back and see the lake. Just 3 sites down is a full laundry, fully stocked store, snack bar, restaurant, play ground, in door pool, large outdoor pool and a lazy river for just kicking back and tubing around and around. The weather is great but it did get a bit windy last night. I had to go out at 3:30a and roll the awnings in. In the evening we took a walk on the beach which is clean and loaded with shells. Then we sat by the lake until sunset watching the turtles popping their heads up and down. What a life, huh?
After we arrived in Myrtle Beach, we momentary lost contact with the world. Our cell phone would not call out or receive calls. I found a pay phone and called Verizon to see if it was us or them. After about an hour of try this and try that we determined it was them so they filled out a trouble call and said they would have it fixed in 24 to 48 hours. Well it only took about 2 hours and we were back on the air. The bad part however is that while trying this and that, one of the things they tried is to remove my account and rebuild it again. In doing this I lost my Verizon High Speed internet connectivity. On inquiring about it I found out that I had been receiving it illegally. It is a service that I should have been paying for. What happened is that when they originally setup my account, they had no way of blocking someone from just buying the "Office Kit" and logging on and also no way of limiting usage. And since I was able to do this, I thought it was included in my service. Now they can block someone from doing this but only on new accounts and, since they rebuilt my account now they can block me. No need to say I was rather upset. Now I have to pay $40 a month for limited access. I am going to do some research into other methods to access the internet but in the mean time I will give them my $40. I guess I could always look at it the other way and say I was getting something for free that I should have been paying for. It doesn't make the hurt go away though.