7/28/15 - Milton, NJ

Jim was on the computer much of morning trying to figure out how to go to the Statue of Liberty and into New York City.  He made reservations for the Statue of Liberty cruise two days from now.  We can’t go to the crown, it was sold out for several weeks but we will get to go into the pedestal to see the museum.  Then we drove to check out the park and ride lot for taking a bus into New York City.  Next we drove to Monmouth Battlefield State Park and watched a movie about another revolutionary battle involving George Washington.  Here in 1778 General Washington and his Continental Army fought the British to a standstill after a prolonged engagement, the first time Washington's army had achieved such a result.

Jim found us a brewery to go visit so we drove to Belmar, NJ and stopped in at the Beach Haus Brewery – it just opened in May.  We got a personal tour of the place by the owner.  While here, Jim discovered that there was a guitar monument to Bruce Springsteen at E St. and 10^th Avenue.  This location inspired Bruce Springsteen to name his band “The E Street Band” and also inspired the song “10^th Avenue Freeze Out.”  One of his early band members lived on E Street and his home was often used as a practice venue.

 

Then we drove to the Belmar Beach and walked in the surf again.  This town also had a DDD – 10^th Avenue Burritos.  Jim took me there and I had a chicken chipotle burrito smothered with chipotle cream sauce.  Jim opted for the all you can eat tacos.  They came two at a time.  Jim had 2 pork mole, 2 chicken and 2 steak.  They were large and I don’t know how he ate 6 of them!  I was so full that I was still miserable when we went to bed at midnight.  We decided not to go into New York City tomorrow.  It would be a great big hassle and most of the day would be eaten up just traveling.  We may try to go for our anniversary in 2016 and stay in the city.