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Cape May, NJ Trip Report 7/3-7/8/11
Cape May, NJ Trip Report 7/3-7/8/11
If anyone is interested, I posted my trip report here:
http://susannj.travellerspoint.com/10/
http://susannj.travellerspoint.com/10/
Susan, loved your trip repor!! Great pictures and I kinow you had a good time.
You can never get in the Lobster House unless it's the winter. It's crazy, so we stay away.
Cape May is such a beautiful town. We have a place about 5 miles away but go over often.
Also, about the wineries. They just started popping up out of nowhere. It's almost like a new business down there.
I'm glad you enjoyed!
You can never get in the Lobster House unless it's the winter. It's crazy, so we stay away.
Cape May is such a beautiful town. We have a place about 5 miles away but go over often.
Also, about the wineries. They just started popping up out of nowhere. It's almost like a new business down there.
I'm glad you enjoyed!
"Paradise...it's a state of mine"
Thanks for the great pics and report - it makes me very anxious to get up to our Cape May Point house and spend a few months there during our Hurricane Season here in the VI.
There are so many excellent restaurants to enjoy -- the wineries have been enjoying great success and the agricultural change from from lima beans, corn and other vegetables to grapes has saved a lot of farmland from housing and development and the sandy soil and moderate climate has proved to be good for the winemakers.
Since Cape May is a walking and biking town it is easy to spend the week and rarely use the car.
You may have noticed Cape Island is exit 0 on the Garden State Parkway.
There are so many excellent restaurants to enjoy -- the wineries have been enjoying great success and the agricultural change from from lima beans, corn and other vegetables to grapes has saved a lot of farmland from housing and development and the sandy soil and moderate climate has proved to be good for the winemakers.
Since Cape May is a walking and biking town it is easy to spend the week and rarely use the car.
You may have noticed Cape Island is exit 0 on the Garden State Parkway.
Until I read the trip report, I had no idea there was such a wine business in that area. The pics of the wineries looked like ones we have visited in the Finger Lakes region and Canada.Exit Zero wrote:-- the wineries have been enjoying great success and the agricultural change from from lima beans, corn and other vegetables to grapes has saved a lot of farmland from housing and development and the sandy soil and moderate climate has proved to be good for the winemakers.
Thanks for this report. We were in Avalon last summer and spent a day exploring Wildwood and Cape May (they're pretty different versions of the Jersey shore, huh?). I hadn't been in Cape May for decades. We had a really nice day there, but there's much we didn't see or even know about. We're going back to Avalon in August and I'd like to get back to Cape May to see some of what we missed.
We've only recently started going down the shore again. We vacationed there every summer during my childhood, but I hadn't been back until a few years ago. The variety is pretty amazing---the north Jersey of the TV show, Atlantic City, Avalon, Wildwood, Cape May. Wildwood was particularly strange for me and that was on a weekday morning. I had the passing thought to take a look at it on Friday night, but my wife would have none of that.
We've only recently started going down the shore again. We vacationed there every summer during my childhood, but I hadn't been back until a few years ago. The variety is pretty amazing---the north Jersey of the TV show, Atlantic City, Avalon, Wildwood, Cape May. Wildwood was particularly strange for me and that was on a weekday morning. I had the passing thought to take a look at it on Friday night, but my wife would have none of that.
Lex, I have to take issue with you about Wildwood. Although some parts of Wildwood are crazy, we live in Angelsea, which is it's own little community. We're on the water and most people don't even know where it is.Lex wrote:Thanks for this report. We were in Avalon last summer and spent a day exploring Wildwood and Cape May (they're pretty different versions of the Jersey shore, huh?). I hadn't been in Cape May for decades. We had a really nice day there, but there's much we didn't see or even know about. We're going back to Avalon in August and I'd like to get back to Cape May to see some of what we missed.
We've only recently started going down the shore again. We vacationed there every summer during my childhood, but I hadn't been back until a few years ago. The variety is pretty amazing---the north Jersey of the TV show, Atlantic City, Avalon, Wildwood, Cape May. Wildwood was particularly strange for me and that was on a weekday morning. I had the passing thought to take a look at it on Friday night, but my wife would have none of that.
Wildwood gets a bad rap, but there are places on the Island that are really realy nice.
"Paradise...it's a state of mine"