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18th Hole at Marine Park

Played OK but finished strong.

Sailing the Hudson

Went sailing on the Hudson River with good friends from the Roundout in Kingston on Sept. 25th.  A perfect day with westerly winds.

Lets Go Yankees!!!

Fiat 124 Spider

After sitting in a garage for 10 years I finally got this 1975 beauty on the road. Hopefully I can combine both passions in my life and breath a little life back into this website.

Fire Island 2006 2

I have really refined the art of the beach at Cherry Grove. Roll out of bed, cup of home brewed Bucks, plant the campsite and read till my eyes get bleary. Beloved and I take lots of breaks swimming in the sometimes challenging surf or just to walk along the long beautiful beach. Dutch, the former owner of Dune Point, still lives on the property. He's a spry 79, though I think he takes his cue from Jack Benny.

Fire Island 2006

Our yearly hiatus to Fire Island is always so relaxing that its hard to get back in the groove. We have always lucked out with the weather. While the city sizzled at 104 degrees we lounged at a sea breezy 86. Deer and Butterflies are the stars the first week in August and as you can see with no natural enemies on the island they are very friendly.

Fire Island 2

Tropical storms from the south made for very cloudy and windy conditions during the first week in August on Fire Island. One of the great things about the Island is that after 2 days you are usually so totally unwound that the weather doesn't affect you as much. If the morning starts out cloudy or rainy within a couple of hours enough sun peeps through to keep the heartiest of sun worshipers satisfried. The protected dunes, the wild surf (No Lifeguards at Cherry Grove), the free spirits give you the quiet excitement to recharge your batteries.

Fire Island 1

My Beloved and I went to Fire Island, which is a 20 mile island off the south shore of Long Island, for a much needed vacation. It is an hour east of New York City but feels like its on the other side of the world. The isolation grows comfortably on your pysche the longer you are there. A short ferry ride and you are transported to sand dunes, boardwalks (no vehicles) and long and sparsely populated beaches. We stay at the Dune Point, which is more of a rustic do-it-yourself type of establishment, but makes it another of our favorite places to vacation and relax.

Vacation

This is the view that my computer will be staring at for 8 days. I leave tomorrow for Fire Island for a much needed Vacation. Of course I gave no thought to how I was going to post while I was away so please enjoy my archives. I must warn you that for the first couple of months I hadn't gotten the hang of sizing my files correctly so if you don't have broadband, they may take a while to download.

Foxwoods

I've extended the range of MertroPlus east to an area which I must admit I rarely travel to, Connecticut, which is very much a part of the metropolitan area. I traveled all the way to the Pequot Reservation to try my hand at wooing Lady Luck. Foxwoods is an amazing gaming establishment off Route 95 at exit 92 on the New England Thruway. It is one casino but the size of three or four establishments at Atlantic City. It is fairlly new and under construction all the time, ever expanding.

For those that are curious, I managed a peck on the cheek from LL and came home with almost everthing I went with.