A Trip To Rockaway Beach

Before you start in yes, we are bad New Yorkers. We live within an hour of a beach via Train and we have visited them maybe 15 times in the 5 years we have lived here. The walls were starting to really close in on us so I mentioned that we should rent an Air BnB over at Rockaway Beach. Geranium’s company gave everyone a ‘day of pause’ on Monday so we decided that a trip for over the weekend with a Sunday Funday would be in order.

I rented an AirBnB on 97th street as BikinisForever told me that I needed to be as close to 95th street as I could. To say that the Air BnB wasn’t exactly truthful about the listing is an understatement. But really we both were so broken at that point we didn’t really care. We were at the Beach and we made the best of it.

Saturday we did the beach and had a fun time and found that a lot of the restaurants on Rockaway Beach are BYOB. That is fine but we weren’t carrying B so we found a BBQ Place that did the trick. Oh we ate there 3 times the whole week but again, we didn’t really care much by then.

Sunday we went over to Rhino’s house and chilled with him and his wife who was recuperating from a toe injury. By the way I didn’t have to give Rhino his Blog Nickname, he already was known as Rhino.

So here is where we really fecked up. Yes I am admitting that we made a HUGE error when we moved from Brooklyn back to Manhattan. Of course when you look back you think; “We had Looting going on in the streets of Brooklyn so your decision making can be somewhat skewed.” What did we do wrong?

We should have moved to the Beach instead of moving back into Manhattan.

I mean think about it. We could have gotten more square footage for our dollar. We are probably going to be working from home for at least till the end of this year. Why not live at the beach and get some rays on the weekend? Sure the winter is a bitch but it isn’t like we will be doing a lot anyway. It isn’t like there is TONS going on over here in Manhattan. Again, dumb move by us but if this thing goes long or we have a wave two we may be residents of Queens. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Yes it has been that many days since we have been removed from Normal New York Living.

We have been fortunate to visit some great places but when this email came we almost had to laugh.

She was happy to get to see Maria, Inga and Chris.

Normally the list doesn’t include COVID shit.

But you go to pack it.

The John Voight Lebaron!

This may be a holdover from Sandy

The guy who owns this place kinda reminds me of someone down in Belize.

Rockaway is a strange little beach town. That is why I like it so!

Last ones on the beach!

Down By Rhino’s House on 130th street

Another View of the Atlantic (that is fairly cold)

Where are you going now?

You have to order a hot dog when you get two Pina Colada’s with a floater. Its the rules.

They are good

So according to Andi I didn’t find the BeachTender. Labor Day we will rectify this.

Like I said, we really should have thought that out better but there is always nexttime.