I have been promising my wife a beach vacation for several years now and it keeps not happening. All for noble reasons but nonetheless we have yet to feel the sand between our toes or hear the surf pounding the morning shoreline. This is especially troublesome now that we have kids, because we would rather them not be 35 before they see the ocean for the first time.
The other problem is that with school summer vacation we now have a very limited window in which we can take a beach vacation that unfortunately is the same as everyone else's very limited window. This both increases the price and lowers the enjoyment.
A friend of mine and his wife travel to the Outer Banks every year. For them, it's become a tradition among their extended family. They share the cost of renting a house and buying food etc and it works out great to be able to enjoy the beach and keep the cost down.
We don't have an extended family that travels to the beach every year so I'm relegated to pining for handouts from well meaning businesses. My hope is that by using my considerable writing talent to help increase the profits of companies like Carolina Designs, they will in turn feel some form of obligation (or even pity) to send my family and I to the Outer Banks for free.
Regardless of the success of my little venture I hope to someday stand on the sandy shores and show my kids cool things like seashells, driftwood, and my incredible body boarding talent. (I consider myself talented in that my shorts have never yet been separated from my body)
Lastly, to my readers, please feel free to keep your beach vacation stories to yourself. Really, I don't want to hear about it, or look at the pictures. Sorry just saving us both some time.
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