Lazy Day at the Beach
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25805)
United States
July 3, 2017 10:52pm CST
My best friend since junior high was staying down at the beach town where we grew up over the holiday and today I went down to hang out with him at the beach for the day. It has been a year since we've had a chance to hang out as he usually comes down mid-week when I was teaching.
It felt good to spend a few hours with him, especially on the beach near the pier where we shared so many great memories growing up. Nowadays we rarely rehash those memories when it's just the two of us. We talk about our kids, our jobs, and getting older. Now we talk about our plans for retirement.
The photo is one I took of the pier from our spot on the beach. The pier in the picture is the new pier they built over the old one after Hurricane Floyd knocked the old one down back in 1999.
Did you do anything special for this holiday (here in the US and Canada) weekend?
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
4 Jul 17
My younger son and his girlfriend were going to go cool off in a creek near her grandma's house near Austin. They'd visited a couple weeks ago and it was a nice babbling brook. When they got there Saturday, it was a dry stream bed. That never happens here in eastern NC.
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@snowy22315 (182183)
• United States
4 Jul 17
Yeah, I usually do something special on the 4th.
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@prashu228 (37521)
• India
4 Jul 17
Wow that's nice beach, hope you enjoyed.
Have a great day
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
4 Jul 17
Not this year, Tony is still recovering from liver surgery and I cannot take off on a vacation, yet.
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
5 Jul 17
@HeartBM We have close to 90,000 miles (145,000 km) of shoreline in the US when you add the Atlantic, Gulf Coast, Pacific, and Alaskan shorelines. Here in North Carolina alone, we enjoy nearly 3,400 miles (5,500 km) of shoreline. Not all of this is beach, of course, but we do have miles and miles of sandy beach along our coast.
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
5 Jul 17
No we didn't do a thing DW..such a waste of the day oh well.
This beach is stupendous!
So glad you got to spend some time with your friend
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
5 Jul 17
@DWDavis Beach time is to be treasured and so nice you also got to have a nice quiet day yesterday together with your wife DW.
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@LeaPea2417 (37379)
• Toccoa, Georgia
4 Jul 17
That is a nice photo of the beach and I am glad you got to spend the day with your long time friend there. No, I have been staying at home during the holidays.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
5 Jul 17
No, I took a four hour nap. I did see the fireworks, though.
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@moffittjc (121729)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 Jul 17
I went to St. Augustine Beach, FL for the day on July 4th. So you and I got some Vitamin Sea while we were soaking up the Vitamin D.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Jul 17
Good to catch up and reminisce of old times.
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@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
7 Dec 17
I am so glad you got to spend some time with your friend. I find it very relaxing laying on the beach.
