Jerry Loggins

I’m a member of a community Yahoo group, and this past week there has been a lot of controversy over the many bicyclists that ride their bikes on back country roads.  There has been a lot of heated discussion going on.  Many of the people feel that bicycles shouldn’t be allowed on the roads at all!  I think that just goes to show you how intolerant we are becoming as a society.  People were riding bicycles on roads before cars were invented, and they have just as much right to be on the roads as cars do!  I don’t ride a bicycle, but I don’t bedgrudge anyone who chooses to ride one.

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The Author of this post is Darius Boone

Every summer I like to take my family to the A Maze’n Farmyard in Eden Valley, Minnesota. It is a day trip that we all look forward to each summer. I pile everyone into the car, pack some snacks, and start our trip. Before I leave I make sure I set my security choice alarm system in my house. Our destination is only an hour’s drive from our house. Everyone enjoys the day, from my youngest toddler to my teenager.

When we get to the A Maze’n Farmyard, the highlight is the barn where the smaller animals are kept. The children can enter the pens to pet the animals. They have a variety of animals, from kittens and puppies to goats and pigs. After we pry the children away from the petting area, we head out to the maze to see how well we can find our way through the maze. The gigantic slide is also a big attraction. Occasionally we will play a game of mini-golf after we visit the animals.

After the children are tired of petting the animals and going down the slide, we usually get a small snack in the gift shop. They have a variety of snack foods so everyone can choose their favorite. At the end of the day, we pile back into the car and head home while the children tell us their favorite animals they saw at the A Maze’n Farmyard.

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Go figure, it finally rains and I had to leave the windows down in my truck last night. At least they were not all the way down and we didn’t get a huge down pour, but my butt was on the damp side when I showed up for work this morning.

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After checking my email this morning, my browser defaulted to a webpage that featured a story about tiny hotel rooms, complete with photos. Some of the rooms were so tiny that I am sure that I would get claustrophobic trying to sleep in one! One featured platform beds in some renovated drain pipes. That’s a novel idea indeed, but it only had a bed in it! What about temperature control? One of the hotels was in an airport and had no bathroom, saying that the customer could use the restrooms in the airport. I guess those folks aren’t supposed to need a shower or bath! And I had heard about the Japanese hotels where the rooms are only slightly bigger than a casket; this article had photographs of the rooms. Those rooms put me in mind of a sleeping berth in a sleeper car in a train.

Well, those are all novel ideas, but I’ll tell you this – give me a standard hotel room, complete with fancy bedroom sets that include a dresser and night stands, and a real bathroom with a shower in it! When I travel, I need room to stretch, and I don’t want to have to wait in line with a with a bunch of strangers to use a bathroom in the middle of the night!

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This year I have seen so many more wild animals on the road and around the yard. Today I drove past a field and found a good sized black bear starring me down as I drove by ever so slowly. Now that is a first for me and I hope that I don’t see another one any time soon, except for maybe in a zoo.

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I’ve never met anyone who claims that they had a horrible time at an Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotel.  It certainly seems like a major vacation destination spot among many of my friends!  Paul and Sandy have invited us to join them for a few days at the Resort in Myrtle Beach that they have reserved for their vacation in February.  The Myrtle Beach Resort that they are going to has condominium suites with several bedrooms in it.  Paul and Sandy like to invite their friends to join them for a couple of days when they go. 

 I think we’ll try to join them – I like going to new places, but I like it even better when I go with someone who has already been there.  That way they can help play “tour guide” and steer us in the direction of only the things that are fun.

I’m already looking foward to spending some time relaxing on the warm sandy beach and enjoying several dinner shows that are produced in the area.  I’d like to see the Dixie Stampede!

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It is a shame that families are spread out so much in this day and age. Back in the day most folks stayed close, living either on the same street or at least in the same town or county and they all looked after each other the best that they could.  My family has certainly spread out, but at least most are still in the U.S. and for the most part are on the east coast.

My oldest brother ended up in Tennessee with his wife and their kids. Tennessee is a beautiful state, we enjoy visiting them when we can and always enjoy the scenic drive up and back, as well. They seem to be doing well there, they have good jobs, a nice home and terrific kids. Of course there has to be at least one in bunch that makes life a challenge. In this case it would be their middle son.

This kid has had some issues with drug and alcohol, but they are doing what they can for him. In my brother’s last email, he informed us that they were checking into sending him into Tennessee Drug Rehab, sometime after the Christmas holidays are done and over with. Drug Detox isn’t something to play around with, so they want to make sure that the Residential Drug Rehab Center that they send him to will be a good and healthy environment that will help him through the whole Drug and Alcohol Rehab process.

The whole family is keeping them in their prayers. Drugs and Alcohol are bad news. The statistics on our teenagers and young adults that use drugs and alcohol are down right scary. We hope that my nephew will come out of treatment a much better person and live a long healthy and prosperous life.

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I’ve been thinking that a nice Christmas gift for the wife would be a get-a-way at one of the nicer Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Resorts come summer. We are expecting a nice tax refund check this up and coming spring, and I can’t think of a better way to spend it than the two of us spending a long weekend at Myrtle Beach, soaking up the sun on the beach and on the golf course. Many of the Myrtle Beach Resorts offer golf packages that seem right nice and affordable.

We haven’t gotten away, just the two of us in so long. I think it would be a good thing for us both. I’m banking on using the Internet and Googling “Beach Resorts Myrtle Beach” and seeing what I can come up with on such short notice. With such horrible weather conditions outside today it seems that it would be a good way to spend the day looking around online.

We will see what I can come up with, maybe print off some of the information that I find and put it in an envelope and put it under the tree for her on Christmas morning. That should be a smile on her face and when she is happy, I’m happy as well!

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Joe likes to take Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations every February with his wife Margie.  They like to take advantage of the various Myrtle Beach Golf Packages and go for three weeks.  February is a good time to leave this area and Golf Myrtle Beach - it is the coldest month of the year up here, so they can enjoy the nice warm weather of Myrtle Beach and laugh at us poor folks stuck up here in the cold!

I understand that there are so many Myrtle Beach Golf courses that you could stay there a month and never play the same course twice!  That could certainly be a challenge – playing so many different courses in such a short period of time!  You certainly wouldn’t get bored with the course!  I can see why so many people would find that attractive!

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I can remember learning in college that prices of things were largely due to supply and demand, and competition. In this crazy economy, prices just are not making a lot of sense. For example, when there are a lot of people flying places the prices go up because the demand is high. So the airlines, for example, raise their prices during holiday travel time because the demand is high.

And yet, I heard on the news this week that the airlines are struggling because demand is lower because fewer people are flying. And because of that they are raising their prices again. That just does not make a whole lot of sense to me. If people are not flying because it is too expensive, then raising the prices is not going to fix that problem, is it?

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