Well, I'm leaving Friday night after a rock concert at Jones Beach (my
wife's pick this time - double-bill of Styx and Foreigner, two groups I
wouldn't care about even if it was their original line-ups with the
real lead singer, which it isn't in either case!) to visit my Mom,
stepdad, sister, brother-in-law and niece on the South Jersey shore
(Longport, the next town north from Ocean City, NJ) until Monday
morning...but Karen is staying home for the weekend sending me for the
family visit myself (her kids, my stepdaughters will be with their old
man after he picks 'em up on Saturday morning)....which will be nice,
I'll be down the shore on my own without wife or kids to set my own
recreational schedule kind of selfishly for two days.....so anyway,
bringing the kayak down to go for a nice afternoon run with my
brother-in-law, who keeps his down there, on Saturday, if the weather's
nice...if it's rainy I'll probably just sit around the house,
socialize, play piano, play with my new gps, and kind of mope...but
also taking the Waverunner down which should make for a really nice
opportunity on Sunday (again, pending the weather which seems pretty up
in the air at this point) for an epic all-day solo run of the kind I
wouldn't be able to make if I was down there with the wife and kids.
If it's not too windy I'm thinking of a fairly insane ride down to Cape
May, across the Delaware Bay and all the way to Ocean City, Md., and
back....or if it looks too windy for that kind of ride, maybe I'll just
circle around Absecon Island through the back bays, ask my sister if
they want to meet me around Brigantine for lunch on the water...and
then back around on the ocean side (again, conditions permitting but in
my experience it's usually very calm along the Jersey coast), hopefully
I'll see some dolphins, actually saw one off Staten Island in early
April.

Been boating since Apr. 2nd but this ride should make a good "official
season kick-off"...man I hope the weather turns out nice.

richforman