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Salisbury Beach Classic Car Meet

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a post with a few photos and lots of words,

ENJOY!

Atlantic City Road Trip

June 5 - 8, 2023

a travelogue

featuring Currier Museum of Art

and Hampton Beach Sand Sculpture

by: Da Butcha

in a special guest appearance

starring

DaS Ginger Mann & Da Butcha

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

Heading Home

and Commentary

Thursday Road Trip to Lowtown

     Round Valley Reservoir Recreation Area, set the controls for the heart of the sun, aka: Home.

     Mostly freeways, insane drivers white knuckle into Corniecutticutt, back over the Mayor

Cuomo bridge, across the Hudson River onto the Merritt Parkway, built 1930's, upgraded parts

1990's, still too small to handle today's traffic, no 16 wheelers are allowed, due to low bridges,

a la Storrow Drive, Beantown.

     Shortly after noon, up in countryside of CT, take first exit marked with blue sign, symbols for

GAS, FOOD, LODGING, Mali'bone needs fuel and the boys need fuel, pass a couple eateries

on way to gas fill up, attendant does the pumping, then back to parkway by way of Lakeside

Diner, a small joint, yet inviting.

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LUNCH BREAK!

     Lakeside Diner, counter seats and five or six tables, not booths, along picture window

overlooking algae and weed choked pond or lake inlet, duck - bird houses, weathered

with age along shore, Canadian Goose plies green water, it's a green scene, water, trees,

shrubberies, and indoor spider plant, very calming and peaceful after doing battle with

poor drivers.

     Our heroes order their lunches, Phillie Cheese Steak Wrap and Pastrami Special,

both with fries; they wait a long time, the cooks misplaced order slip and with much

apologizing from all Spanish women staff, the diners get their sammies, plus two free

donuts, made fresh at the Lakeside Diner that morning.

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Riders on the Storm

(There's Killers on the Road)

     The rest of the trip is uneventful, rain - no rain as Da Butcha and DaS Ginger Mann

near Taxachusetts, traffic slows and bunches up due to drivers going too fast, cutting in

and out of lanes, no directional use, forgetting how to operate a motor vehicle in wet weather,

and sudden down pours, slowly, with caution, wipers and headlights on...It's the Law!

So flash electric lite-brite signs all along the route, that no one seems to heed...

en masse anyway.

     Motor past accidents, silver sedan, front smashed into driver compartment, evidence

of engine fire, another vehicle in close proximity, how did that happen...?  Stupididity

and not paying attention, almost happened to Mali'bone a few times as cruised down and back;

Butcha loves to drive places, but these days...not so much.

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Post Road Trip Chillaxin'

     Return to DaS Pad alive, Mali'bone in one piece and unmarred.

     Ginger does laundo', Butcha writes, then...Netflix Movie, Salt, and beddie bye, to sleep

per chance to dream, tuckered out from the road trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

     AC, NJ is not what it once was, how many famous casinos remain? Tropicana,

Showboat, Caesars, Hard Rock, Wild West, and Ocean, the newest metal and glass

monstrosity on the Boardwalk, they're all on the Boardwalk, one or two others possibly,

deeper in AC, away from casino central; they're all using 'Caesars Rewards' which indicates

they're all in cahoots or owned by the same conglomerate, investment company...

in Belgium...probably so...makes sense for survival in lower attendance numbers, casinos

all over the U. S. taking dollars.

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Commentary

Rooms to Spare

     Hundreds of hotel rooms, do they ever fill to capacity...? Maybe in the Summer Months.

     Next door to Tropicana Chelsea Tower rooms, Ocean Club Condos, two old hotel towers,

gutted and converted to 1, 2, 3 bedroom apartment condos, LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS!

     The buildings look dirty on the exterior, green mold-algae dots porches, towers show their

age, faded glory of the 1970's or '80's, whenever built, certainly don't look like units are

worth what R/E Keller Williams is asking, $200,000.00 to $400,000.00...FOR AN

APARTMENT in a crappy looking high rise!  Butcha'd rather buy a free standing house...

in New England.

     Crowds pick up as week progresses, by weekend beach is prob' rocking out, Boardwalk

and casinos full of vacationers, weekend warriors, and families.

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Golden Era Fades

     Tho it's well past the hay day, Atlantic City, NJ, remains a place to visit, experience

one of the three main gambling towns of yesteryear.

     Once the grand showrooms presented the Greats, Sinatra, Martin, Davis Jr, Borscht Belt

Stand Up Comics, big bands, now nightly and weekend shows are Cover - Tribute Bands to the

Greats and today's rock stars, members from pop and country bands on solo outings, unknown,

up and coming comedians, nobody our traveling companions are interested in paying to see,

my, how times have changed in casino entertainment, ghosts all around.

     DaS Mann checks off AC, NJ as his first gambling town visit, Da Butcha's first visit to

AC, NJ, having been to Reno and Las Vegas NV in the late 20th century and early 21st,

rental vehicle, $600.00, hotel $200...experience...priceless.

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Parting Piece

Booster Club

(Shoots the Moon...Literally)

Populace gets mean,

violent rushing 'round scene,

assaults, car crashes,

folks go crazy in flashes...

blame it on Covid Vaccine.

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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you very much,

this is guest roving reporter pote

Da Butcha

from Round Valley Reservoir Recreational Area

saying be with us next time as we take off on

D. A. Appreciation Day!

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"I'll have a crack of that!" Coyote barks.

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Salutations From Obi Wan Can'obi Layke Pahrk

since January 7, 2021

just a toddler in blog years.

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