DOING LITTLE, MAKING BIG MEMORIES (March 23 - April 1 2019)

Edisto Island, South Carolina Sunset

 

Edisto Pelican

Edisto Island has become a spring stop for our nomadic life style.  The drive from Indiana to coastal Carolina was long and tiring but yet enjoyable as the 12 hour road trip was shared with my daughter and her family.  The first ten days of our seven week stay at WYNDHAM OCEAN RIDGE RESORT would be spent with her, her husband, and my two young granddaughters.

Edisto is one of those places that you either love or hate.  It is a slice of the South Carolina low country coast that time has passed by.

It has no national restaurant chains, unless you count the Subway in the Gas Station.  Good local family owned eateries dot the Island with wonderful sea food and BiLo meets your grocery needs.  

Entertainment?  Pretty much just make your own with beautiful beaches, biking/walking trails, playing mini golf.

If you are looking for the Myrtle Beach/Hilton Head experience it is not here.

Edisto Dolphins

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For me, the ten days with family was a great time of just enjoying life and one another.  Enjoying one another away from the busyness of life.  Enjoying the simpler things like; watching a dazzling sunset, playing mini-golf, riding bikes, playing table games, eating chocolate chip cookies, being awed by the dolphins in the bay beneath our deck, telling stories of events from long ago.  So many simple things that combine to make a wonderful tapestry to, itself, be remembered for years to come.

I believe that we all want to be remembered.  When this life's day comes to an end, we want to be remembered.  Therefore, my challenge, and yours, is to make sure that those closest to us have reason to recall times together.  We must, with purpose, take time to "make memories".  We must not be so wrapped up in everything else that we miss what is most important.  We must not be running the race of life so long and fast that we fail to touch the lives of those who we call family.  Find an Edisto somewhere.  A place where you can strip off all the complexities of your life and find peace.  Find a place where you can reconnect with those nearest to you.