Back from a short but sweet va-ca at Sun Set Beach. As usual nothing worth having (or doing) is ever easy. No matter how much you look forward to or all the planning in the world can counter act the unforeseen forces of Murphy’s Law. We were off to a rocky start, to say the least, but after a melt down a postponement a tow truck a six pack and a borrowed vehicle from mom for Elizabeth (big thanks to mom by the way) we were finally off.
Quick question, have you ever downloaded an application on your cell phone? Well, on our way to the beach, which you know can be tricky we never go the same way twice; we decided to download the navigator application to my cell phone. For $9.99 we got the same instruction as a $100 GPS system that you would install in your car. I highly recommend this little application or at least give it a try prior to investing in a Garman or Tom Tom. The only suggestion I would make is you may need to get a car phone charger for any trip longer than four hours or the life of your battery charge.
Anyway, back to the beach, the weather was great on the 4th and we watched fireworks from the driveway but the rest of the weekend the weather just wasn’t cooperating. We did go out for some great homemade sugar-free ice cream one evening, out to an Irish Pub on the 4th and to the flea market on Sunday. If you didn’t know about ten miles north of Bare-Foot Landing you will find the North Myrtle Beach flea market. This is where Chris and I made a wonderful discovery, we found Ray Galoish.
Ray Galoish is a folk artist who’s many works are featured in and sold at the House of Blues Restaurants around the country. Mr. Galoish, to our surprise, displays and works out of a shanty at the flea market. I was shocked! He is a tall, slim man who is like a shadow in and amongst his artwork and ready available supplies that he utilizes, as well as, sells. There were no less than 500 hub caps and license plates chaotically organized in his catacomb of a display.
Mr. Galoish stood quietly in the shade talking with another vendor but when a patron wanted to speak with him, he disappeared back into a maze of short hallways built from chicken wire and 2x4’s which he used to display his artwork in the make-shift museum. His girlfriend, Car-Lee and yes that is how she spells it I asked, was more than happy to chat with you about his work and hers too. She was quite the character!
I would love to have taken home a few pieces of artwork but just because it’s a flea market don’t think you’ll be getting any bargains. Most of Mr. Galoish’s art work is priced around the $500.00 mark and I don’t think Car-Lee is up to doing much hagglin’. But, if you get down that way this summer you should stop by and enjoy, what I would consider, wonderful examples of distinctly original American Folk Art.
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