Another grand day on the New Jersey coast… Sunshine, blue skies, and warm August temperatures in October…
We spent most of it taking care of the beast that got us here: My Truck, or, as we so tenderly refer to it: BIG BOY…
Went to Walmart and had an oil change (Thirsty little bugger: 12 quarts!), which took the better part of the morning…
Can’t blame it all on the truck, though, ‘cause we had to wait for my medicine also… But, anyway… Waiting any longer than 15 minutes in a store like this, drives me nuts… Oh, well… My problem… Not yours…
From Walmart (which is located about 16 miles South of our RV Park), we headed North (about 30 miles), up to Manahawkin, where we went looking for COSTCO… I’m sure it won’t be coming as a surprise to you that “Jack” guided us to a very nice and wooded piece of property, but, unfortunately, COSTCO hadn’t been built there, and probably will never build there…
Luck had it, though, that we found ourselves on the road to Long Beach Island, a place Luanne’s been telling me she wanted to see, so not all was lost…
Now that I think about it… I wonder if there was some hanky panky when she programmed “Jack” this morning?
Anyway… I can’t believe how flat this area is… And how overbuilt the island is… Not just the island, but every nook and cranny along every inlet has a marina (or should I say docks?) covering the shorelines… It’s good picture subjects, objects, whatever… But… Well, I don’t know…. Who am I to say, anyway?
There’s a Main Drag running North/South along the center of the island (or spit, if you will), with a couple of parallel roads on either side…
Everything is posted “No Parking,” so we spent quite a while driving around before we found a spot to drop the truck off… Then we dashed for the beach…
Have to dip our feet, you know… Hard to break a habit!
Well, we had some wonderful moments enjoying the sun, sand and scenery, which we almost had to ourselves… Besides ourselves, there couldn’t have been more than a handful of people enjoying the beach with us…
But all good things must come to an end….
We needed to find COSTCO… And we did… Spent at least an hour waiting for the tire guys to rotate my tires… Which time we spent productively by devouring a hot dog….
BIG BOY took us to Smithville on our way home (way out of our way, of course), where we spent a couple of hours browsing through every little shop we could find… Very interesting little place… I’m sure glad we were here today instead of this weekend (when Oktoberfest was going on), because when we drove by here (whenever it was), the whole place was packed with thousands of people, and I’m sure we would’ve had a hard time just moving around, let alone getting into places…
When we got home, we started looking into (on the internet) getting to New York tomorrow…
We’re having a heck of a time… Think we’ll get up early, than head up to Jersey City… Maybe get a ferry over to see the Statue of Liberty… We’ll see, and I’ll let you know…
Gotta go to bed now, so take care, and keep looking in on us…
Only a few photos today, and here they are: http://cid-44d18849bf3983e9.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/MANAHAWKIN%5EJ%20LONG%20BEACH%20ISLAND%5EJ%20and%20SMITHVILLE%5EJ%20N.J.%20%5E5OCT.%205%5EJ%202009%5E6
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