Take me Away: Manasquan

Take Me Away
In celebration of the first day of Spring I am featuring a place  I love being in the warm days of late Spring  and Summer: Manasquan, NJ.

The Premier Surfing at the Jersey Shore

We Travel By Boat

Evenings are Peaceful

Frank is Never Happier

The Guys Love Spring and Summer

Great Bike Riding

Manasquan has Kept Its "Old Shore" Feel

It is An Easy Trip!

Something For Everyone

Today I am featuring a place I am actually able to experience. I am so lucky to spend Summers  at Manasquan. It is one of my favorite places. In the Summer, there is no place I would rather be.

One Way Ticket to Buenos Aires

A One Way Ticket to Buenos Aires 

I am a displaced New York City girl, I lived there for twenty five years and it is in me on a cellular level.  Life circumstance has taken me thirty minutes outside of the city and I am in culture shock. Still. I have been here eight years and I still cannot believe this is my life. I live in a small town in a state of disconnect. 

People mistakenly think that NYC is a cold place. On the contrary, it was my small town. I felt part of every minute of the day, in any neighborhood, in any group of strangers, in every situation. I felt alive every second that I lived there. I was madly in love with the city. Connected on a cellular level.

 I have been to  almost every "big" city in this country and the feeling is not the same. Not even close. Paris has it, London, not so much. I have not been to too many large cities around the world but there is one that I love learning about, and visit in my dreams and this is Buenos Aires. I cannot get enough Buenos Aires! I have to get there even if I  have to go alone. 

 
A few other things I am passionate about: Like most, I love the beach. It is really about the water, not laying in the sand. Also, I  am crazy for the history of European Architecture. Our country's architecture is, in comparison, very young and pale in character to that of Europe's. 

Buenos Aires is a city on a beach with some of the most lovely, old architecture I have seen, (in books, anyway). It seems like another city where the energy carries you through the day, floating a few inches above the ground. It seems like just being there makes you feel   automatically cooler than you ever  really could be. It reminds me of New York, but with a beach, and really old  beautiful buildings with fantastic history.  In other words, it is dreamy. Now, Buenos Aires does not have a pretty history. It has survived some horrific periods in time. But to me, in my dreams, I am there and it is perfect. I am madly in love with the city.

 

Me, in my dreams.

Thank you for reading, 

                                                  Norah