Beach Vacation

Just got back from a week at the beach with my family. Spent the week in a house in Surfside Beach, SC with no wireless access. And I made no effort to find any.

Here are a few observations I had as we vacationed:

As I took my pale body out to the beach every day (I even had a poor farmer's tan), I realized I'll never have a great tan. When you serve on the staff at a Baptist church, you'll never have a good, all over tan unless:
You have some color in your heritage, your ancestry- if so, that's a great thing.
You spend hours in a tanning bed- that's not the most manly thing ever.
You spend tons of time on the golf course or on a boat at the lake- you should be at work more often.

Those "Bridge Ices Before Road" signs throughout South Carolina make me smile when it's 85+ degrees in May.

I often think of all the cities and towns we pass through on our way to the beach (Columbia, Florence, Conway) as "near the beach" but the people who live there probably make it to the beach no more often than I make it to the mountains.

As always, there were several overgrown, beefy guys trying to attract girls at the beach. If they really wanted to meet girls they should hang out with our almost 2-year old son. He was very popular with the ladies.

This week, I'll post some of my notes from the recent Innovate Conference.