1 November, 2015            NORTHERN hospitality

Northern hospitality equals or exceeds Southern hospitality in every way! As I learned (again) this weekend when Evelyn and I stayed with her family and friends in the Sandy Hook area of New Jersey. We had a fun train trip up and back, but the return trip didn’t get us back to Richmond until 9:15 this evening. So I’m going to put up a handful of pictures I enjoyed then extend this tomorrow.

All of the pictures in this post are taken with my phone, not with my “real” camera so they’re not as crisp as I like. But we were traveling light. 

This picture is taken out of a not-very-clean train window, but this is the sun rising at 7:34 Friday morning – somewhere near Quantico, VA. An hour and thirty-four minutes after our train left Richmond. In the pitch dark:

Sunrise to begin a wonderful journey

I took this picture Saturday morning around 10:30, about five minutes walk from the Blue Bay Inn in Atlantic Highlands, where we stayed during our visit:

Five minutes walk from our hotel. Unimprovable.

This picture I took yesterday afternoon while we were watching the Halloween Parade in Atlantic Highlands:

Firetrucks are always fun. ESPECIALLY when they’re throwing candy.

And there was no way I could walk past this without a picture:

This person wasn’t even wearing a pirate costume.

And I took this picture – the final picture for this post – this afternoon at 2:00 – while standing in Evelyn’s mother’s backyard! It’s like paradise! This is the house where Evelyn grew up!

The creek behind Evelyn’s mother’s house – where Evelyn grew up!

More tomorrow. This weekend I got to meet Fred for the first time – today is his birthday – Happy Birthday Fred! Today is also my sister Katie’s birthday – Happy Birthday Katie!

More tomorrow, all best,

Jay