Up reasonably early,
and into the car,
first for breakfast in Media,
then onward,
below miraculously clearing skies, via Atlantic City Expressway
and
Garden State Parkway,
to
Somers Point
and
the
Great
Egg
Harbor
Causeway
Welcome
Center,
and
beyond to
Ocean City.
First
stop,
the
condo,
taking
in
the
views
and
muraled
pool
complex;
next,
down
to
the
Boardwalk
and
9th
Street
Beach,
continued
welcome
blue
skies,
though
blustery,
sand-
scudding-
across-
sand,
back
on
the
Boards,
to the temporary northern end,
then southwest past the
Music Pier toward the auto once more.
Beyond,
it's
a
return
to the
Point Diner for a Fisherman's Platter (stop 3 on the Philadelphia-Area Food Groups),
then
residence-ward in the
setting sun
and
pulsating lights.
Dropping off George, Bette, and Chris --
time to
head
south... High a wintery 46 at home (by far the coldest day of the year, surpassing by 4 the previous 50, a week before, on December 20 -- and the only day this year that could be considered "winter" thus far); 65 at Bette and George's, 67 Ocean City, a summery 72 in Roanoke Rapids, NC...
