I guess you could say I am in a bit of a dilemma.
So if you would kindly give me your opinion.
You see I am supposed to go to Myrtle Beach
in May. Biker's Week. I went last year.
This year it is even more expensive since
the room that is already booked/reserved is bigger, better.
Everyone of us 3 will have our own room and
bathroom. I have to come up with the money for
my part of the room by the beginning of March.
My part of the room is like $466 for 8 nights,
I think, which is a good deal! But it's almost twice
of what I paid last year. We haven't booked
our flight yet. Everything that I have seen so
far in airline prices (flying from our local airport)
is sooooo expensive, even with the $100 voucher
we got last year from
missing a connecting flight home.
I have found a flight cheaper in another city
that isn't that far. But then who do we get to
drive us to that airport? Now that's not the dilemma.
I keep thinking about the huge expensive of it all.
I have to have spending money, you know. Food, drinks,
souveneirs. I am not going away on vacation to be
totally cheap!!! I keep thinking that I could
be doing so much with this money that I
would be spending for my excursion. Things like
pay down my credit card. Or the possibility of
buying a new living room furniture which we
really need. I also keep thinking about that the people I
am to go with are the same 2 I went with last
year. I guess you could say they are a bit
wilder than me and single. They both have interests
in some guys that they met last year and who they
have been keeping in contact with. I have this
feeling that they are going to want to spend alot
of time with these guys. Which I don't blame them.
So that leaves me to do what? Hang out by myself?
I do have friends that I know there but I don't feel
like being a burden on them the whole time.
And then they are gonna want to do the biker thing
too while they are there. You know like tinkering
with there bikes, showing off their bikes and
having guy time. There will be times that
I know I will have to entertain myself and that
is fine. I know how to entertain myself and
I have no problem walking somewhere. But who really
wants to go on vacation with 2 other people
to be by themself? Not that I think they are not
gonna have anything to do with me the whole time
we are there. However, the 2's company, 3's a crowd
saying does keep popping in my head.
Also, there is no outdoor pool for me to
sunbathe. I love to lay by the pool, chill
out, or people watch or read, or snooze.
Last year I went off by myself one afternoon and slept on
the beach. I don't want to be lonely while I am there.
I also can't hang as long. The people I am going with
stay out much later than me and that is fine. I
took my butt back to the room before them every night
last year! There is just so much drinking and sitting
on a bar stool that I can do. I don't feel like
riding all over Timbuktu either. I am a bit fearful
of all the riding and being stuck somewhere waiting
for my driver to take me all the way back to my room!
I will ride in close proximity to where I know but
outside of that, go ahead and call me no fun, I am
just not doing it!
Also, I keep thinking that I haven't been on vacation
with my husband since September 2006 when we went to
Myrtle Beach. I do have a good time with my husband
on vacation but we always drive to where ever we go.
I HATE the driving part. I would much rather knock it
out by flying and I am fearful of flying too. I
have to say that when I go with my husband it definitely
isn't as expensive for me, we eat better, I get more rest and
I'm not lonely.
But then, I don't even know if my husband
is gonna want to go on vacation this year!!!!!!!!
He's not a planner like me.
I know if I decide not to go come May and Biker Week
time and I will be regretting not going but I also
know that I don't want to be stuck there wishing I
hadn't gone becuz I am lonely and bored.
But is it worth going to my beloved beach and getting
to be near it and in it for 8 nights
over no beach at all????
Now you see my dilemma??????????
Your thoughts?
I am driving myself nuts over
thinking about it.
Ahhhhhhhh..............
Headache.