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Bike Week 1995-1998

My late husband and I won a honeymoon in Myrtle Beach in 1991 from a bridal show in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Neither of us had ever been to Myrtle Beach!  We just loved it, took our motorcycle and while there, noticed quite a few motorcycles.  We did know about Bike Week.  We arrived in Myrtle Beach May 21 (Bike Week was over, but some motorcyclists had stayed behind--they too must have fallen in love with Myrtle Beach).  We never got back until 1995 when we went to our first Bike Week.  We "trailored" our motorcycle.  I had just learned to ride, so we took his bike and I had gotten an old 1985 last year Ironhead Sportster).  We stayed at the Caravelle.  We had never heard of it, but somehow ended there.  It was absolutely the best!!  We then attended Bike Week in 1996, 1997 and 1998.   During 1997 my husband became ill and was on disability. It was a hard year, but we went to Bike Week in 1998.  It was our last Bike Week.  He passed away January 14, 1999.  What was special about that year, was that we rode our bikes instead of pulling them behind us.  He thought I would not ride, but I did.  It was scary, but fun too.  I just turned 50 that year, and we rode 535 miles (that is the mileage from our driveway to the Caravelle) We only had our motorcycles, so we had to ride everywhere we went.  He loved it!  So did I.  I rode for about five more years on my own.  I did not date in all the nine and half years after he passed away.  But this past May, 2008, a friend of his called. I had not spoken to him in about eight years.  We have been dating since May of 2008, almost ten months.  It will be one year this May.  We want to attend Bike Week.  What is interesting to me is that I told myself I could never go to Myrtle Beach again--that it would be sad. But I now realize that life is good and it does not matter what happens to us, but how we deal with what happens to us.  Both Bruce (his name : ) and I have been through similar experiences.  We are both ready to move forward.  My late husband had congestive heart failure, and it was a difficult year before he passed away.  What I am saying is that the Caravelle was so wonderful that that is the only place we considered to stay.  While we were there the first year, we met someone named "Mousey" and met him there each of the four years we attended Bike Week.

I would love to stay there this year in 2009 and being a Head Start teacher, Bruce hangs gutters, we would love it. Bruce has never been at the Caravelle.  An added bonus, is that it is located near the church I attended each year, and that was special too!

I appreciate the opportunity to share my experience with you and look forward to being able to be there this year.  I have Myrtle Beach picture from those years, but do not have the capacity to add to this.  They are beautiful the same.

Kindly, Sara Jo Bodkin