More (or less) of New Jersey

Oh, here's a picture that I forgot to add in yesterday's blog. This made me think of the SW corner of 8th St and Gum, a rather useless property that you can't get to, that has been for sale forever and probably won't sell any time soon or at all.  What if the City could acquire that property and turn it into a beautiful park with a  small, maybe river shrimp boat, shrubs and flowers and name the park after the donor of the property. Wouldn't that help to beautify 8th Street? I sure think it would.                  

We got our act together, not too early, and headed for the road north that was closest to the coast. A few turns and over a couple of bridges and we drive to this sign, not Hollywood but Wildwoods which is just above Cape May. Then we got to North Wildwood, Stone Harbor and Avalon. Next was to be Sea Isle City but when we got to the bridge over Townsends Inlet we found out that the bridge was shut down either for rebuilding or repairs. Not too bad, we would backtrack to North Wildwood and go west to pick up the Garden State Parkway and take Exit 11 East. 

On the way to the GSP we discovered something - neither one of us was enjoying this part of the trip and we didn't really like the towns we were driving through. Here's what we talked about - the towns each had an older section with basically beach cottages. In between and around was new construction of large homes that blended in with the neighborhoods, but super large homes. Because it wasn't the season most of the homes were vacant. The streets were mostly empty and  except for a few, the stores, shops and amusement areas, of which were many were collecting cob webs. The towns looked like they had been evacuated with just a few strays staying behind just like happens when a hurricane is on the way. Most of the traffic lights instead of going red, green, yellow, red was just left blinking yellow or red depending on which way you are driving. Susan and I thought that it just felt creepy so we have changed our travel plans. Enough of New Jersey's coast, lets get up and around New York City and get to CT, RI and the Cape.

This tells the story. Sign on the door of a toll booth on the way over to one of the beach towns. 

No Toll

Closed for the season

Thank you