What is it about SoWal that makes it so special?

[MKH]

I am looking forward to my family's annual trip to SoWal next month. With all the planning and anticipation, I am reminded of how different I feel while I am at SoWal, different from when I am at home, and also different from how I've felt on vacations to other places.

When I arrive at SoWal every year, I bring a lot of 'baggage' with me each time-worries about work, home, inlaws, bills, obligations, just lots of crap. By the 3rd day in SoWal, I couldn't care less about any of those things anymore. I'd love to hear from others who visit on occasion and what their experience is like in adjusting to SoWal and really relaxing while they are there.

P.S. This thought has been brought about by my 2-hour ordeal with TurboTax this morning regarding a misspelled word on my tax return. It took 4 customer service (??) people to finally understand my question and help me find the error. Now that it's done, I've headed straight to this site to escape and relax.

 

[Miss Kitty]

MKH! You pose a great question! I am just so thankful there is a SoWal! And I am also thankful for all the special people I have met here and in person that love SoWal.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Blue water, scrub pines, white sand, dune lakes... :clap_1:

 

[kathydwells]

I look forward every year for that first whiff of the ocean air, to feel the ocean breeze on my skin, to see the sea. I do not touch one thing in my loaded down van until I walk to the edge of the dune at the Villas and look out at the ocean for the first time. MKH, all my worries, and cares, just like yours dissappear, but for me it is instant!!! I love this feeling and yearn for it for for those 11 months and 3 weeks that I am not there!!!!!

You asked what is it about SoWal that makes it so special? EVERYTHING!!!!!

 

[MKH]

I look forward every year for that first whiff of the ocean air, to feel the ocean breeze on my skin, to see the sea. I do not touch one thing in my loaded down van until I walk to the edge of the dune at the Villas and look out at the ocean for the first time. MHK, all my worries, and cares, just like yours dissappear, but for me it is instant!!! I love this feeling and yearn for it for for those 11 months and 3 weeks that I am not there!!!!!

You asked what is it about SoWal that makes it so special? EVERYTHING!!!!!

You are right-it's a combination of lots of things that gives us the ability to forget our concerns and just relax. I wish mine was instant, but I find it takes a couple of days for me to abandon my workaholic ways that I have for the other 11 months and 3 weeks of the year. But once I get into SoWal mode, I'm there and it just keeps getting better and better.

 

[ShallowsNole]

Home Sweet Home.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Home Sweet Home.

Home Sweet Second Home!!!! I never forget for a minute how lucky and blessed I am to spend so much time down here.

 

[seagrovelover]

So Wal

 

[KISH7374]

Try taking your watch off as soon as you get to your destination. It makes time go slower and last longer.

 

[JB]

There is a certain "feel" to the area that I have never been able to duplicate. I have sat on beaches in the USVI, Miami and Maui, and STILL prefer this area to any of them.

It's just one of those things that you can't really describe. Unfortunately, the secret started getting out when Seaside was built. Within five more years, I don't think that certain "feel" will exist anymore - especially when every acre of beach is five-deep with people who, for now, can't access the area due to lack of a major airport.

Enjoy it while you can, folks.