Most families have taken their summer vacations already or are currently staying in a Myrtle Beach hotel this week or some other exotic beach hotel next to the ocean. I wished my family would have went to the beach this year for a vacation. I love the ocean and going to the beaches in Florida or around the Carolina coast, to a place like Myrtle Beach, is an easy travel from my North Georgia home. I have been to Myrtle Beach a few times and it never gets old. I haven’t been recently, so I need to find out about the new things in and around Myrtle Beach this year. I found one website online; which offered some great information about this vacation destination and you can go to: http://www.horizonmyrtlebeach.com and get some solid information, if you’re thinking about this part in the Southeastern USA.

Did you and your family already make a trip this year? Where did you travel to in 2010; for the place you thought would be the best place for a family vacation this summer? I would love to hear the highlights of your trip and if everything went as planned.

I will say this about the families who wait until the last minute to go on their summer vacations. You can save a lot of money, by choosing a vacation week later in the season. Most families still try to go before school starts back, so usually the prices are still the same. For older adults, who don’t have or bring children with them on their summer vacations, they can wait until the school bells ring again in the fall, for them to head out on an affordable trip. Most hotels, restaurants, and other tourist spots on the itinerary will lower their prices after the school year begins. Even the Myrtle Beach best hotels will cut room prices for their guests; who make reservations for the last days of summer or during the fall season.

So some of us may have frowns now and hate to see summer coming to an end, but for those who haven’t taken their yearly vacations yet. They continue to count down the days; until they can say good bye to their bosses and leave their jobs for a week. Summer hasn’t ended yet. Now is the time to enjoy these long daylight hours and make the best of what we have left in the summer of twenty ten!

Judging by the picture of Wildcat Creek in North Georgia, this would seem like a good place to go swimming. A big rock that has water constantly flowing over it, would make a great natural water slide. I’m sure a lot of people go swimming here in the hot Georgia summers.

Have you ever been to Wildcat Creek in North Georgia? Please let me know your thoughts on this area and if it is still open to the public. I wouldn’t mind taking a crack at this water slide; which Mother Nature has provided for us. This area in Georgia looks like a good place for picnics or a weekend camping trip. I’m not sure if anyone is looking over this area or if its monitored in any way. It’s not often you find a waterfall that you can actually slide down. This looks to be like one of those great natural water slides. I am also curious to know how many deep pockets of water are located on this Georgia creek. I might just have to bring the fishing rod and the swimming trunks to this beautiful creek in North Georgia. Please help with any information you have heard about or know about Wildcat Creek in Georgia.

You can’t beat all of the fun you and the kids can have at an ocean beach. Not to mention the beach is free to use anytime and it makes an ocean vacation even more affordable. I like all of the past ocean vacations I have been on. There is just something about the sound of the ocean and the non-stop breezes that make a ocean vacation seem like the best spot in the world.

Man’s natural history is strongly connected to the ocean. You get a sense of nature and being some where you belong; when you walk along the beach front. At least I get the sense nature is talking to me; when I have spent time around the crashing waves and sandy beaches.

It really just isn’t a vacation, if you don’t have the presence of an ocean near by. The ocean makes the vacation and so much beauty around it. There has to be some reason that forces people to drive hundreds of miles each year, just so they can experience the powers of the ocean. If you have never seen or been to the ocean in person, you must find a way to go; while you’re still young enough to enjoy it. People who can’t swim will be a little terrified being so close to such a big body of water. I understand these concerns, but even these folks need to see the ocean at least once in their life.

You will never forget your first time seeing the ocean. Unless you live near one or grew up with the ocean in your life. For those who don’t live near the beautiful blue waters, you will be amazed the first time you see it. It’s even hard to drive the car, if you’re forced to drive when you first get a glimpse of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. As far as the eye can see, you will be able to see water. You will understand why so many people in the early history of man, thought the world ended, where the ocean line touches the sky. It does seem like you could fall off of the Earth, if you traveled out as far as your eyes are allowing you to see. I can’t even imagine the first groups of people who made this origianl journey to the ocean’s edge. Obviously now we know the ocean doesn’t end and it just keeps going for miles and miles.

Your first trip to the ocean will probably not be your last. Once you see the ocean, you will want to see it again one day. I have seen the ocean about a dozen times in my life and would still like to see it again one day. I just love that first feeling of seeing it. Especially when you have drove a long distance to get there. Your first experience with the ocean is like none other. I can’t even think of anything to compare it to, since the ocean is one of the greatest, natural beauties our world has to offer. Seeing the ocean up close and personal is nothing like seeing it on television. The TV doesn’t give the ocean it’s full justice of scenic amazement and everyone should visit the ocean just once in their lifetime. You can make 2010 the year and plan out a ocean vacation, before the warm days of summer are over.

Water is one of the attractions to any good campsite. Any camper wants to find a good spot near a lake, mountain stream, or a nice raging river winding through the forest, in some remote part of your state. Water is an important part to any camping trip that is planned to take place over an extended amount of time. You want the wet stuff to cook with and to keep things around the campsite clean. So the regular weekend campers and those campers who gold on gold-finding missions, do want to be as close as they can to a water source.

Camping is more than just spending time with nature. Campers often like to hunt and fish while they’re taking a break from the hectic and everyday world we live in today. A hunter will need water to clean a fresh kill and obviously a camper who fishes will need some deep water areas to satisfy their desire to land the big one. Keeping the water away from dry clothing, our sleeping areas, and other places is the goal of every camper. The gold miners don’t use their custom made tarps as well as the typical group of campers, who place their tarps in key areas to prevent things from getting wet. I guess because we walk around a lot in wet clothes and even our boots and socks get soaked and we just keep going. As long as there is gold to find in “them thar hills“, we don’t mind getting wet to find it. Did you get wet on your last camping trip?

I love the Futures Game; which will be held next Sunday and will be on TV for us baseball fans to watch. We get treated to the Century 21 Home Run Derby on Monday; which will be July 12th. I really wanted to see the Braves Jason Heyward in this year’s home run derby, but it doesn’t look like that will happen now. Since the Braves rookie outfielder is recovering from a slight strain to his thumb; which has placed him on the DL or disabled list. His injury is not as severe as the Phillies second basemen Chase Utley is and I am hearing surgery for his thumb.

Finally on Tuesday, baseball fans all over the world get treated to the Mid Summer Classic. Since this year’s All Star Game will take place in Anaheim; where the Angels baseball team plays their home games, we will see a daylight baseball game. The baseball game will be filled with stars, but it just won’t take place under the stars. I’m sure the sun will set in the later innings and the end of the game will be played in the beautiful night air out in Anaheim, California.

Votes are still coming in for the final roster spots to each team’s all star squads. MLB fans can still vote on a few selected players and two will get voted in as the last man to make the All Star Game for each team. So you can still make a difference, if you will exercise your right to vote. Let’s check out the candidates for each side and tell me which player you would like to see the most in the 2010 All Star Game in Anaheim.

National League Choices for Last Player

1. Billy Wagner – Atlanta Braves

2. Carlos Gonzales – Colorado Rockies

3. Heath Bell – San Diego Padres

4. Joey Votto – Cincinnati Reds

5. Ryan Zimmerman – Washington Nationals

American League Choices for Last Player

1. Paul Konerko – Chicago White Sox

2. Delmon Young – Minnesota Twins

3. Michael Young – Texas Rangers

4. Kevin Youkilis – Boston Red Sox

5. Nick Swisher – New York Yankees

These are the MLB players on the ballots for the last All Star roster spots to be added to the American and National League teams in the 81st All Star Game. You can vote now for which player you would like to see for each side. Since the All Star Game does count now, you may won’t to vote on the worse choice for each side. If I was an American League baseball fan, I would vote for Billy Wagner of the Atlanta Braves. He would have the least amount of chance of causing harm to your American League team. If the American League wants to keep their winning streak alive, the A.L. fans should vote for Billy Wagner of the Braves for that last N.L. roster spot.

Braves Closer Billy Wagner

On the flip side, if I was a National League fan, I need to vote for the worse player on the American League ballot for the last player. I would be glad to do that, but I really don’t know which player is the worse. I really like Nick Swisher, but really don’t want to see another Yankee in the All Star Game. So no votes for Swisher, even though I like him best as a baseball fan. No need to help the Red Sox nation with another vote for one of their players, so I won’t vote for Kevin Youkilis. I guess Delmon Young of the Twins; who is a great player, would be the best choice for National League voters to choose, so they could help the N.L. All Stars win this year.

Vote Delmon Young for the worse player possible. American League voters will want to vote for the pitcher Billy Wagner of the Atlanta Braves, because the odds are in the A.L. favor, that Wagner will have no impact to the 81st All Star game in Anaheim, California.

Why was Billy Wagner of the Atlanta Braves, the only pitcher in the final vote for last player in baseball? I know they selected players from the top divisional leading teams, but the Braves do have some better choices for a All Star player. Not sure if it’s still true, but Troy Glaus was leading the National League in RBI’s or runs batted in. The committee could have made a better roster choice for the N.L. side by putting Troy Glaus in the mix. The A.L. votes will love to vote for Wagner and he would be their guy for the last spot in.

MLB fans have until Thursday at 4PM EST to get their votes in. The last roster spot will be determined by the online votes, so your vote does count! Go get your votes in now and be sure to vote early and often! I hope your favorite group of 2010 All Star Players wins next Tuesday. It should be a good All Star Game; which I’m sure they will still be talking about Stephen Strasburg not making the National League squad. The Nationals rookie pitcher is the talk of baseball right now and his presence will be felt in Anaheim as Charlie Manual of the Phillies left him off of the 2010 All Star Game for the National League team. Now go get those votes in for the final MLB player for the 2010 All Star Game.

I don’t have any 4th of July plans yet. A nice cookout on the grill would be a nice treat. I’m not sure how wise it would be to have a cookout at my house on the 4th. There is so many wasps, yellow jackets, bumble bees, and other buzzing pests at my house right now. Going to a park that has a bunch of big shade trees would be a better place for my 4th of July cookout.

I don’t think anyone can talk about celebrating the Fourth of July without mentioning fireworks. I guess if my family wants to travel to an area to have an early evening cookout, we better choose a place we can see the fireworks going off. I have always loved the fireworks on the 4th of July. It just wouldn’t be the Fourth without a few bright colors and loud bangs filling the night time skies.

I’m not sure if the work force in America is too happy with the 4th of July being on a weekend day this year. Most people work Monday through Friday jobs and have the weekends off. The 4th of July is a paid holiday for most people. A few companies could avoid the holiday pay this year, since it does fall on a Sunday. I use to like working on the 4th of July and getting paid double time.

For some reason, it seems summer goes down hill after the 4th of July. I guess in a way its the midway point of the summer season. It won’t be long until school starts back up, the fair comes to town, and the wind begins to blow all of the leaves off of the trees. We then get to celebrate Halloween on the last day in October. After that, we do a little voting in early November for some political turkeys and at the end of November we eat turkeys. With our stomachs still full from our Turkey Day on Thursday, we all wake up early to go shopping on Black Friday. The official first shopping day of the holiday season is that Friday after Thanksgiving. Our TV programs change to all Christmas stories and the radio stations play mostly holiday and Christmas songs. We greet good ol St. Nick on the 25th of December and eat another huge meal for our Christmas dinner. One week later we gather up the fireworks for the last time and get ready to set them off on New Year’s Eve; when the clock strikes midnight. Finally New Year’s Day is here and we welcome 2011 in with a bang; while saying good bye to 2010.

It kinda seems sad how everything just flies by. The good news is, we haven’t began the 2nd part of 2010 yet. So to limit the amount of regrets we might have on New Year’s Day 2011, we still have a full 6 months to change our futures. Yes, we have probably wasted some valuable time for the first half of 2010, but we have just as much time left to make up for it. I hope you and your family have a wonderful 2nd half of the year and you will have nothing but smiles in 2011.

Some families may be looking for a camping trip to go on, for this year’s summer vacation. Throwing the tent, a grill, coolers, and your other camping supplies in the back of your Chevrolet Silverado can add a lot of extra weight. This can cause a lot more strain on a set of bad brakes. Even if the drive is not that far and a big portion will be through old dirt roads, you still need to stop when you step on the brakes. It’s just as important to get good brakes for a camping trip with a loaded down truck, as it is for the family that will be traveling through several states to get to their vacation spot. You don’t want to stop at a Dallas auto repair on your trip this summer. It’s no fun sitting at a garage all day; when you could be relaxing at some luxury resort or on the beach. I know all too well, because I have took part in some of these family vacation trips; where the car does break down.

Do you have any horror stories to tell about traveling to or from a vacation destination? Please feel free to share what happened to you and how long it took for you to get the auto repairs fixed. I have a couple of stories I could tell and I hope I never have another breakdown again on a long trip. They do create some lasting memories, but its no fun while you’re living through it.

The latest news coming out of Afghanistan lately, starts to paint a better picture why so much fighting has took place over the years in this very poor part of the Middle East. Why was the Soviets trying to occupy the lands in Afghanistan during the 1980′s? Why is the United States currently fighting a war inside the borders of Afghanistan? Why did the Taliban take over the central government and tried to run the country on their own? A lot of questions that didn’t make a lot of sense and we were only left trying to guess why each party had a vested interest in the Afghan soil.

It seemed pretty obvious the Soviet Union wanted a bigger territory and more of a land mass in Europe, so they were trying to take control of the country 30 years ago. After the 2001 bombings from the Middle East Terrorists that caused 4 hi-jacked planes to crash in the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and in a Pennsylvania field; it was obvious why America went in and invaded the country of Afghanistan. Finally you have the Taliban, who came in after the Soviets left and before America sent troops in, and they had took over and was basically running the country of Afghanistan. All of these parties seeking control of an area in the Middle East that doesn’t seem like a place anyone would want to own. Perhaps the only people who truly love Afghanistan are the people who live there, work there, and have gotten use to life in such a baron and harsh country.

Now a few secrets are starting to emerge and the earliest records we have right now, are the geological surveys and estimates the Soviet Union was doing in Afghanistan. They had been mapping and keeping a collection of data that pertained to all of the untapped resources that were in Afghanistan in the early 80′s. China also has a part of this and they already won a bid earlier on a copper mine in one of the areas of China. An official working for the Afghan Government was bribed $30,000,000 dollars from the people’s Republic of China for some other areas in Afghanistan that appear to be rich in natural minerals and resources. China is a country that faces a huge shortage of natural resources for all the people they currently have inside their borders. Chinese Officials are doing all they can to secure areas outside of the borders of China for these valuable resources.

The latest news is coming from the Pentagon and a few of their employees teamed up with a few geologists to conduct a series of tests in Afghanistan for some of these valuable and precious resources. These tests began in 2007 or at least that is the public information that is being released right now. How many other geological tests and surveys the U.S. may have did or conducted before the year of 2007 is not clear or is information no one in the Pentagon, White House, or on Capitol Hill is acknowledging at this time.

Did the Soviet Union seek an ownership in Afghanistan, because of all the rich resources this land is now known to have? Has the United States written their own script to have soldiers and geologists currently in Afghanistan? I think a lot of people will be wondering how early the USA suspecting there was a vast amount of natural resources in the Afghan country. While China has been the only country not to send in troops to this area of the Middle East, they seem to have a strong interest in the vast amount of resources this land might posses in the Middle East.

Large amounts of copper and lithium are expecting to be under the soil and deposited in this poor land from what most consider a 3rd world nation. There may also be a few gold veins running through the country of Afghanistan; which mining companies from all over the world will have an interest in. The Pentagon is assisting the Afghan Government in helping them to create a bidding system for their precious and natural resources. The wealth contained under the dirt could be huge for one of the poorest nations in the region. This could help Afghanistan tremendously in the future and help this country to get back on its feet, as they try to push the Taliban further away and hopefully out of their country for good. There is already a growing concern that the Taliban will put up a tougher front with the latest news about these valuable resources. The only other value in this country is the farm lands that produce and sell opium plants; which most are illegally growing or trafficking to other countries around the world.

The new resources like gold, lithium, and copper could be the answer to all of the Afghan citizen’s prayers, if these minerals are harvested and mined properly, so the country can benefit from it. You probably have a battery in your remote control or a cell phone or laptop computer battery that has lithium in it right now. This mineral alone could be huge for all the companies around the world that look to other nations for their supplies of lithium, to keep up with the growing demand of lithium batteries. This will be one story from Afghanistan that won’t be going away anytime soon and the interesting part now will be which countries get access to these areas that are loaded with an abundance of natural resources.

When I first come to the computer, I click on my Internet Explorer icon and this brings me to my Yahoo homepage. From there I will type in Clixsense and go to their website to click on the ads. After I click my first ad at Clixsense, I will have to wait 30 seconds, before I can click another one. While I wait for my 1 cent to be added to my Clixsense account, I will open up my downline page in a new window. Just to see if my downline at Clixsene got any bigger. My next task is to go to the Linkgrand page from my affiliate page at Clixsense. I will login at Linkgrand and begin to click their ads too. I love both of these websites, so I always make it a point to go to them first.

My 3rd stop on the journey brings me to Trafficera Traffic Exchange. I will login here and began surfing and checking on the Google Ranked Us surfing team. This is where I spend most of my time on the Internet and I love how Traffic Era is set up for team surfing, social networking, and as a manual traffic exchange. The Google Ranked Us team does very well in the clock races each day and our team earns a lot of free credits. Advertising online comes easy for us, so if you would like free advertising and willing to work as a surfer, you can join our team too. Just send a team join request and continue to surf a lot each day and we will find you a spot. We are always looking for the most active surfers possible, to join our Google Ranked Us team.

Once I complete these 3 steps and visits to these websites, I travel different directions each day. I guess it all depends on how the wind is blowing, to determine what my next step will be. One of the most common places I go next is to my email account. I will go there to see what other traffic exchanges might be having a special for the day or to see if any new money came into my Pay Pal account. I can determine a lot of things, by checking my email and seeing if anything special is going on.

I am a full time marketer online. I come online daily and spend hours and hours into promoting my programs of interest online and helping others to promote their products, services, or websites online. I offer good advertising rates, so I get a lot of business on my most days. People that know me, have seen how my help can give them a big boost online. I can bring more traffic or get you a better spot in the search engines. It really just depends on what you want, to know what types of advertising will serve you best online. One of the best pieces of advice I can give, is to come on daily and make it a point to do something each day toward your goal. If you will do at least 1 thing each day and I do mean 7 days a week, you will make positive strides to accomplishing the things you want to get done online.

The small business advertising industry is growing and more people are needed to help people and companies to promote their interests online. When the economy gets bad and people lose jobs, they always turn to their computers to see if they can make money online or find a work at home program. Our field is growing daily and more online marketers (like myself) are needed. If you have a desire to make money online or an interest in Internet Marketing/Advertising, you need to jump in now. It takes a long time to build up contacts and business partners online. The sooner you start, the sooner you can begin to earn money from your computer. I wish you lots of luck and now you know how I start each day on the World Wide Web.