Somewhere in this world is a little bit of heaven, maybe
even a slice of heaven as they say. In it is where people go to be happy, enjoy
life and renew their spirits. It is the place that makes not only me, but three
other people very dear to me happy, too.
Cape May sits on the tip of New Jersey, forming the very end
of the Garden State Parkway, Exit 0 and the very end of your everyday cares. Once
you are there, you are transported to another world, one that is never intruded
on by your own reality. It is here in this wonderful world of Cape May that you
can forget who you are, but not who you want to be.
It is in this special place that my older sister Tessie,
(much older) took her husband John to get away from the world of cancer and
pulmonary fibrosis and spent a few days with TLW (The Little Woman) and me to
purge their spirits from the those issues and love life once again. They walked
away very happy!
Probably the best time I have had in a long time was spent
with these three special people. We talked, laughed and made fun of ourselves,
we joked, asked questions about our lives and enjoyed some of the great simple
pleasures of life. Special nights were spent on the porch in rocking chairs
sipping cocktails and watching the sun, setting into the horizon as my
older sister Tessie (much older), TLW and John and I sipped and enjoyed our
drinks, waiting for dinner time.
They were evenings when we went to restaurants that provided
great culinary surprises, lasting memories and dining pleasure reserved for
those with no cares in the world.
Cape May is a place where happy faces grace the streets,
form lines for gelato and fudge, or maybe taffy is your pleasure. It is a place
where you can sit on a bench along the boardwalk and read the latest clever
t-shirts, watch lovers stroll hand –hand and hear laughter at an opposite table
in the dining room of my favorite eatery, Aleathea's.
3 comments:
Sounds heavenly. We'll have to check it out.
Funny, I spent nine weeks in Cape May during the summer of 1976, and I didn't find the accommodations all that nice, the food wasn't so hot, and we weren't allowed to lounge around on the porch and watch the sunsets. Maybe because I stayed on the grounds of Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, otherwise known at BOOT CAMP! I have been back since, and things have improved greatly! I didn't have to do a single push up and no one called me a f***ing puke once!
The previous comment was from #1 Son's father-in-law and the Dad of TLC, Roger Hyde.
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