I must go down to the seas again ...

Nothing like the Atlantic in winter Right then.  New year and time to do something adventurous but in keeping with my well-covered frame.  So what could be better than a month at the beach?  Lots of things, probably, considering that the beach is Surfside Beach in South Carolina where the water is struggling to get up to 60 degrees F (or down to 50).  But it does have the huge advantage over flying somewhere that I can take all sorts of toys with me to while away the dark evenings. So lying around the house waiting to get stuffed in the back of my trusty Subaru are a pile of robotics bits, three computers (one usable, one for sale and one dead), several books of varying degrees of erudition, two cameras, my bike, a guitar, a box of stamps to dispose of and a Flying High DVD.  I no longer carry CDs on my travels as I have finally ripped the lot onto my laptop, even the ones I don't care for. I've bought way too many robotics bits over the years so I'll be stickin...