I just returned from a few days in "Oklahoma by the Sea," Seaside Heights, NJ.
We used to take the kids there a lot when they were young, actually to beautiful Island Beach State Park.
After a while, we started renting a place in a local motel for a few days here and there, particularly in a spell where times were bad for us. (They're far better now.)
My wife and I, now empty nesters, go there for a few days for nostalgia, cheap and easy to get to.
It's a pretty right wing part of NJ. The "Shore Store" which apparently part of the "plot" in the television phenomenon used to malign our State, "The Jersey Shore" TV show is filled with paraphernalia worshipping an idiot adjudicated rapist who was fond of hanging around with a pedophile, and is widely assumed, almost certainly correctly, to have participated in the pedophilia himself. The guy paints himself orange and is trying - and succeeding to some extent - to turn the nation's Capital into an exercise in nouveau riche bad taste appropriate to cheap carney scams. He's worshipped by poorly educated rednecks and rapacious billionaires trying to suck the last blood out of our dying country.
As for "Jersey Shore" I saw exactly one episode of the show, the first one; it struck me as grotesque.
It's a short week, 4th of July weekend this year. You'd think the place would be crowded. However, Oklahoma by the sea looked kind of badly attended compared to previous years, not crowded at all, lots of vacancies in hotels.
There were zero Canadians there of course, unlike past years.
We had fun anyway. I just love being with my wife, but we'll probably never return there. We did something we'd never done, which was to drive the full length of Island Beach State Park, again, a beautiful place. It was a way to say goodbye to being the parents of children; our sons are men.
That said, Seaside Heights is not the NJ I love; I'm done with it.
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