After lunch at Big Meats at the Mcleod Farms Roadside Stand & Pumpkin Patch Farm Museum Complex Donna and I left the members of the MMC behind to head down to Hilton Head Island for a couple of days. It was sort of a working vacation as we had to, along with kicking back on the beach, take some interior photos of condos to update the Hilton Head Condo Rentals web page.
Along with all the photo taking and beach walking we still found time to drive around and score a few points in the Moss Motoring Challenge. Because Hilton Head is sort of a playground for the well heeled it cost us money to take the photos. Donna found a street in the Sea Pines Resort that was worth over 30 points in the Scrabble Scramble, but if you want to drive onto the plantation, and you are not a guest or owner, it cost $6 to get a visitor pass. While six dollars sounds like a lot, because Mizzenmast is worth 32 points, it works out to less than 19¢ a point. Compare that with our other Hilton Head Island shot and it was a bargain. We needed a photo of a toll booth and the Cross Island Parkway was right there. The toll was a buck and a quarter and the picture is worth 1 point. The last photo we took was off the island on the way home and it was free.
On the way over to have dinner with Donna the Condo Queen on Sunday night the CTBNL passed by the 52,000 mile mark.
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- Scrabble Scramble 02 – Mizzenmast: While spending the weekend on Hilton Head Island we looked over the map to find some high scoring street names, this one stood out. To get to it we had to drive right by the entrance to the Harbour Town Golf Links where in a weeks time they will be holding the RBC Heritage, a PGA Tour Event. (4/2/17)
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- Toll Booth: Cross Island Parkway on Hilton Head Island – Opened in 1998 so the the rich folks who live in Sea Pines Plantation don’t have to creep along the 6 miles of congested US-278 from the head of the island to their homes on Mizzenmast Court. Toll cost (and subsequently the photo cost) $1.25. (4/2/17)
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- Heroes and Villains 02 – Pat Tillman: As you can see from the Historic Marker sign, the town has no relation to Pat Tillman the ex-NFL player the Army tried to make into a big hero after dying in Afghanistan in April 2002, but a subsequent investigation revealed that he was actually killed by friendly fire. No matter how Pat Tillman died, he is still truly a hero who gave up a lucrative pro football career to defend our country in the uniform of our Armed Services. (4/2/17)
