Some pictures from a hike threw the Shark River Park and our trip to look at some land in Whiteville, NC (pronounced why-ville..all one sill-a-bell)
oh there’s also a shot of our new baby Chip.
so these are some pictures to show what it was like of hurricane bill.
i didn’t go out on saturday, but was out friday and twice on sunday… and fatty over here broke his leash in the process and had a 1/2 mile swim back into shore to get the board and go in for lunch.
i wasn’t paying attention to the camera setting when i took the picture in the morning with the backlit sunrise, which is why it’s dark.
Tags: Asbury Park, hurricane bill, new jersey surf
Here are some pics from our trip to Cheryl’s BBQ and Longwood Gardens.
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Here are some pics from our trip out West.
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Why are there no open mic nights in Asbury Park, NJ?
This seems to be a strange question to be asking in a town that owes what can be successfully argued a large part of its history to ground up performances. In other words, this town is a place to see someone or something on stage, that quite honestly is not for mass production. Or is it? The history of the town seems to suggest a wanting to bring main street through its shops, restaurants, and bars. So does this mean that we can’t lend 3 hours in one of the bars on a regular basis for this unscripted expression? If for no other reason than to sell more alcohol durning the week.
Everything is now a showcase of acts that have put a lot of time into their mySpace page than what they have to say as artists. This is not to say that there always needs to be a complex narrative in entertainment, something that must be contemplated to be understood and appreciated, but this does mean that crap seems to be the order of the day.
Think about it if you spend some time in the town and the area and bring yourself to this next question. There has been quite a bit of work in restoring an economy on the boardwalk, but where are the skee-ball machines?
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Here are some photos from Christmas Eve dinner and skiing at Camelback Mt. the next day. Suprise suprise, there’s also a burdee that makes an appearance.
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(editor: I can’t even follow this. Not only is there no plot or subject or does it make any sense, but it’s just riddled with spelling errors…..)
The Police’s De Do Do Do. De Da Da Da Da is currently on in the background and if I am not mistaken this was vote the worst lyrics every put to music and released. (confirmed Blender ) This is on in the background because there really is nothing on TV right now and I shuttered at the thought of finding out what Cablevision thinks Adult Alternative (Explict) is, so Classic Rock should be safe as something least offensive.
Its been a fairly warm last couple of days here at the beach since Thanksgiving. I drove out to the beach to look at the surf which was reported to be about chest high. I drove out to north Asbury Park right on the border with Allenhurst. There’s a long protected patch out there that because of the way ocean’s currents have erroded the sand to the south of the Jetty. If you zoom out a bit you can see it on this map. Ah google maps
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This is helpful in the surfing world for the main reason that a guy like me doesn’t have to spend his time trying to figure out where he is on the beach because he’s been drifting for an hour and can’t lift his arms from paddling. As I pull up through the parking lot which because of the rain has small lakes of a sand clay mixture that even what turns out to be a large amount of F150’s would be smart enough to stay away from. I am quiet suprised but not completely to see how many cars were parked out there. I could see that some of them were just contractors that are working on the building that is being refaced and other projects in the area and the reference to the trucks prior probably gave that away, but there is also a sizeable amount of diehard surfers either on their lunch break or just plain off that are in the water. And I had no reason to blame them. Had I not had anything else to do today, I might have figured out how many Red Bulls I would have to drink to get the energy to get in the water with them. I think 3. I hate to make it sound like I chickened out too so lets look at the facts. The air temperate is 45 and the water is 53-55. So figuring for the fact that there was no real wind and the sun was peaking through at that time, it probably wouldn’t have been that bad. The full suit is ready to go and at that temperature it would be a toss up to see if you’d need to wear the gloves. The problem is that puts you in an average of 4mm of a rubber and an extra 10lbs to carry around in this already admittly brisk water.
So it wasn’t the water temperature. Or even the wind, which there was none. I’m just not that confident in my ablities for the size of the surf in these conditions. Being tided up in a suit like that and have to go paddling through an oncoming wave it just takes the life out of you. The best I can allude to would be running down on the scout kick-off team. A thankless job in the hopes that if you keep pushing through you’ll be through it and sitting in the line-up.
It will be enough to wait for another day and to see if the swell dies down a little bit. It’s supposed to be a bit more sunny and warmer tomorrow. So it might just workout that I get to spend some time in the water seeing if I have what it takes to catch somthing about waist high, or alittle bigger. At low tide of course.
Tags: Asbury Park, surf
Here are some more pictures from the Roadtrip in August.
Tags: Southeast Roadtrip ‘08
switched seats as we crossed the border into nc so lauren can get some daylight drivetime. feenix is sitting in front of me wondering why i’m not giving her my full attention. we left marrietta ga. today in rain and spent most of the day in that rain. s.o.b took us out to a mexican resturant around thr corner from the house that he lives in, the place was pretty good, this is the second chimmeny-chan-ga i’ve had on this trip, and it always seems like there’s so much extra food on the plate. i just really don’t have the stomach for re-fried beans after having a deep fried burrito. anyway, we just passed someplace on rt 72 south in nc that was called huckleberrys hound and hunting supply.
Things that have happened.
Left Tn and made our way to NOLA. I really do not see the need in professing their distaste of southern california in such a public way, but we are in the south, nothing really makes sense around here. Every resturant we’ve been to that wasn’t a national chain, the waiter/waitress would bring a small dish out of some sauce that we needed to dip our food in. We would ask about how something might taste and enivetably a small dish would come out from the back. whether or not what was in that dish was what we were asking about was about 50 / 50. Cheese was a popular base of these items.
traveling down rt 74/76 to willmington NC. zzzzzzz there should be a bbq place down there, and because we’re in eastern carolina this should be whole hog bbq as opposed to the ribs that I’ve been eating. this should also give me an opportunity to pick up another bottle of sauce. We seriously might have a years worth of straight from the resturant bottles of sauce in the car. also in the trunk, some been-yeay mix and chickory coffee mmm. I’m getting hungry. this place should have fried chicken and hopefully it will be less greasy than willie maes. i’ve really been struggling with the chicken at willie mae’s. I guess it’s because lately, i’ve been soaking my fried chicken in all kinds of things in the kitchen and have been trying to use different flouring/batterings for the meat when it goes in the oil. You know the chicken at willie mae’s was alright, but i suppose it didn’t really live up to the hype in my mind. there was the whole experience of getting food there in the first place. It is a house that has a converted commercial kitchen in the middle and that causes the place to be filled with these delicious aromas. And the granddaugher/owner is doing the cooking. one person cleaning dishes, one person sweeping and one waiteress. so you’re on thier time there. oh and it’s only open 11 to 3 a few days a week, so the mere fact it was open is a positive thing for our visit there. I think i’m getting off track here, the rain is coming down in sheets right now. so i really hope that this place in willmington is open, they have whole hog bbq with vinegar sauce i want and they’ll have a fresh piece of not greasy fried chicken. i’m hungry right now…mmmm
Tags: Southeast Roadtrip ‘08
