The Star Inn Cape May

... is how God poned Sodom and Gomorrah. People like this," said Michael jealous of their rocky adventure that he only daydreamed about. Then she was down, too quickly to have been intentional. And after watching her husband bend over her and her struggle to her feet and limp back toward the sand, we concluded she had fallen on the dangerous rocks.

We went to the Frozen Custard Shop and got a bag of ice and met them at the end ...

... online. Somehow, I found the Travel Insider web site and the package featured several things that sounded appealing - discounts, add-ons, a great itinerary, and a cruise company that we had used before & enjoyed very much. I also spoke to the "host" - the Travel Insider himself - and found him to be pleasant, well-informed, and enthusiastic about the trip.

An auspicious start, I thought.

... way each running north south so there are only 3 rows of buildings. The one facing the inlet, the one bounded by the two main roads and the one facing the sea. The buildings all looked as if they came from the sixties and seventies a little bit rundown. We found a park and headed up between the units to come onto a boardwalk that went for at least a mile in either direction fronting the boardwalk where all manner of tourist shops that kept repeating ...

... ferry to Delaware where we explored the town of Lewes and hit the outlets. We came back for a late birthday dinner at the Peter Shields Inn. Good food and a fantastic view of the ocean from our table.

Wednesday was already our last day. So we hit the beach all day and then jumped in our cars and left. All in all it was a perfect little relaxing beach get a way.

Well, Last night was a nightmare!! Everything was so wrong! I came home from the beach with my best friends not wanting to leave, I got in the car everything was fine. I got home finished the book i was reading and started Breaking Dawn By: Stephenie Meyer. I didn't want to put it down!! Then came dinner, my mom told my brother, sister, and I that we were going to order pizza!! Great! We gave my mom a couple places that we could order ...

... Marina and heading for a shrimp dinner at the Lobster House. The Lobster House is a giant sea food place right on the docks where the boats come in. Its always packed but the atmosphere was worth it.

A good run for the day. The weather looked iffy but the f-cast called for two days of light air and 2-4 foot seas going north. This looked like a good weather window on our passage up to New York and points north.

Monday morning we said our goodbyes to Karen and Allen and set off across country to Cape May, at the southern tip of New Jersey, where we were meeting up with more friends - Ken from Boston and Diana from Cape Cod.

Despite the big distance Ken and Diana have to travel, we all arrived within 15 mins of each other at the little house we are renting -so we open a bottle of wine to celebrate before heading to the local supermarket to stock up on ingredients ...

... credit card to do so. Consider this your little screw-you back to the town that will have to pony up a small percentage back to the credit card company for the priviledge of accepting payment with their cards. If you have a card that pays rewards like I do then even better, use that one to further cushion the insult of getting caught in this **** in the first place. (Accepting credit card payments was also buried at the bottom of the ticket... I ...

Leah came down to meet me and Andy in Rehoboth Beach, DE before packing up the car and hitting the road. Since the weather was so nice, we decided to take the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel to enjoy the scenery that surrounds it. Somewhere along the way (maybe 3 hours into the 16 hr car ride, the heat stopped working. I later was told by a mechanic that I was at the boiling/freezing point for my radiator fluid or something...makes sense now). Our ride down wasn't ...

... I did the only logical thing to do, I asked her if she did or was considering doing anything wrong. She said no, her problem was that she didn't have enough cash to buy the ticket on the train. They wanted to get her information to send a bill for the fare to her. I was very relieved. She actually thought others might think that she was a suspected felon or terrorist. I told her she was right, that's what I thought! Anyway, she turned out to be a lot of ...