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The two weeks we spent in Bay Head, New Jersey in late July and early August made such an impression that I think I could write a book about them. In reporting on the trip, it's hard to tell where to start. Might as well go with this for openers:
Cool Things That the Jersey Shore and Oregon Have in Common
Costco
Music Together
Gas station attendants
Dairy Queen
Decent turkey burgers
Things That the Jersey Shore Has, and Oregon Doesn't
71-degree ocean swimming
Beach lifeguards
Deli sandwiches on great rye bread, with about a pound of meat on them
The default mustard: some serious, stoneground stuff
Beach boardwalks with fabulous kiddie rides
Real bagels
Clams
Local flounder, swordfish and fluke
Toll roads
Beach admission charges
"Taylor Pork Roll"
A 6 percent sales tax on just about everything
Guys suspected of the 2001 anthrax attacks
UPDATE, 8/19, 8:55 p.m.: Just thought of two more for the second list:
Hard water that makes thin hair look thicker
Beach houses with hot/cold outdoor showers
UPDATE, 8/21, 4:39 a.m.: And let's not forget:
Vicious mosquitoes
Comments (12)
Umm. We have clams. We have some boardwalks on some beaches.
Where's the list of things we have that they don't? Like "invigorating ocean temperatures" - n - stuff...
Oregon clams? Never ate one. Oregon boardwalks? No penny arcades, so they don't count.
As for the good things that Oregon has and the Jersey Shore doesn't (and never will), they are so numerous as to defy blog-ation. But the trip was our time to look through the other side of the lens.
Greetings from Ann Arbor,
New Joisey beaches are like awakening in the midst of a Soprano's episode. Gum chewing,cotton candy-like big haired lasses doing their nails a dark red while mall dreaming.
Is it really the place for the Jesuit educated?
Here in the midwest, where Mortimer Snerd bred a thousand times to build this heartland race,we think not of Joisey beaches, but rather choose to just remain.
you never ate an oregon clam?! Get down here. There are at least 4 different kinds (empire, steamers, razors, marthas) you can dig out of the bay yourself. You can also get freshly harvested oysters in four places around here. I hated clams and oysters til i moved here. Nothin like camping up the river and someone bringin up two bushels of medium oysters to be tossed on the bbq with the marthas.
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 29
At this date last year: 66
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (12)
Umm. We have clams. We have some boardwalks on some beaches.
Where's the list of things we have that they don't? Like "invigorating ocean temperatures" - n - stuff...
Posted by Rob Salzman | August 18, 2004 10:32 PM
Oregon clams? Never ate one. Oregon boardwalks? No penny arcades, so they don't count.
As for the good things that Oregon has and the Jersey Shore doesn't (and never will), they are so numerous as to defy blog-ation. But the trip was our time to look through the other side of the lens.
Posted by Jack Bog | August 19, 2004 12:40 AM
Damn. You just ratcheted my always-on east coast bagel cravings into high gear.
Not to mention the sudden longing for a corned beef sandwich, stacked foot-high...
Posted by Betsy | August 19, 2004 10:59 AM
Under cool things Jersey and Oregon have in common: how about: a Gay American?
:)
GayAmerican.org
Posted by GA - Keith | August 19, 2004 2:03 PM
Or is that "crooked Democratic power broker resigning over a sex scandal"?
Posted by Jack Bogdanski | August 19, 2004 2:06 PM
Oooooohhh. A real deli sandwich, mmmmmm. Man, I miss Jersey now.
Posted by pdxkona | August 19, 2004 2:34 PM
The "Shore" is not just a place. It's a state of mind.
Posted by Jim | August 19, 2004 5:09 PM
You win.
Posted by GA - Keith | August 19, 2004 7:02 PM
Did you know you look a little like Nick Fish?
Posted by The One True b!X | August 19, 2004 10:12 PM
Greetings from Ann Arbor,
New Joisey beaches are like awakening in the midst of a Soprano's episode. Gum chewing,cotton candy-like big haired lasses doing their nails a dark red while mall dreaming.
Is it really the place for the Jesuit educated?
Here in the midwest, where Mortimer Snerd bred a thousand times to build this heartland race,we think not of Joisey beaches, but rather choose to just remain.
Posted by Raoul | August 20, 2004 7:05 AM
Hypodermic Needles?
Posted by alan | August 20, 2004 7:33 AM
you never ate an oregon clam?! Get down here. There are at least 4 different kinds (empire, steamers, razors, marthas) you can dig out of the bay yourself. You can also get freshly harvested oysters in four places around here. I hated clams and oysters til i moved here. Nothin like camping up the river and someone bringin up two bushels of medium oysters to be tossed on the bbq with the marthas.
Posted by pril | August 21, 2004 10:49 AM