After the long drive from Virginia, through DC, Maryland and Delaware (we can put it on the map now) and into New Jersey (so many places boggles the mind of us Westerners who take all day to get to the state line), we needed a walk. Our 7K in Morristown took us past huge mansions with park size gardens and antebellum duplexes nudging the sidewalk.
Our appetites whetted, we knew this was the state for good pizza. Upon the recommendation of a local realtor, we went to a great place with various stations for pizza, pasta, entrees and salad. The food was great and we take pride in passing up the tempting dessert station.
We had heard friends and relatives in the East rave about how lovely Cape May, NJ was, so we enjoyed proving them correct. The Victorians are every bit as beautiful as the ones in San Francisco.
We met with friends Don and Barbara at the Mad Batter, a restaurant in the Victorian era Carroll Villa B&B.
While catching up on each others lives, we strolled the lovely summer resort town admiring antebellum homes and commenting on strange modernizations. This was a perfect setting for good friends to walk and talk. The Congress Hotel was especially interesting. It is almost 200 years old and was built when the railroad came to Cape May. The original breakfast menu featured a complete breakfast for $.50. In the 50s, you could have a room and a golf weekend for $29.95 per person.
Before leaving this tip of New Jersey, we went to view the Cape May Lighthouse.
The wetland is also a busy flyway for migrating birds. The purple martins who linger in the area have houses on poles lined up near the lighthouse.
On the beach is a WWII costal defense bunker that once was 900 feet from the shore and is now right at the water due to constant erosion. While there we did dip our toes into the Atlantic Ocean.
By the way, this was our second sighting of the Google Map car, the first was in a Walmart parking lot.
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