Day 2

pic - camp
pic - some crackpot

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Last weekend alicia and i went on a little camping trip aka without car style. it has been a year since i have really driven a car... so i'm starting to have serious driving cravings. Anyways, we caught the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) out to a small town on long island. backpacks, tent, beach bags & chairs and all. we realised that the walk to the campground would be a little silly to do at 7pm on a friday night, so we called a local taxi (we were still in civilisation). it was a good plan cos we later found out the walk was about 3 miles (not 1 mile as i thought) and it would've taken f**king ages. So we turn up to the camping weekend in a taxi. nice one. we also left the camping weekend in a taxi, even better. The campsites were really nice and we had a picnic table and we set up our tent under some big trees. we were under the impression the beach was really close to the campsite, i guess it is if you have a car. but it was about a 40 min walk for those without. So the next day we walked to the beach..... not quite what i was expecting. Kinda like the Swan river on a bad day, week or year.... we didn't swim.... we did catch some sun-rays though (keep them handy for winter) and it was great spending time not doing anything at all. believe it or not we had a really good time and on saturday night we bought a 12 pack of Buds and played cards. Sunday we had more success, going to a nicer beach (water was yuk though) and we read and ate in the summer sun, we then called the cab to pick us up from where we were to take us to the LIRR station. the train was packed with trippers coming back from the hamptons and i was having trouble containing all our stuff. beach chairs and backpack everywhere!!! we eventually made it home after 2 transfers. yay for public transport.

Well a bunch of things are getting planned for the weekend. Hopefully go to jones beach on sunday for another beach installment... and make up for last weekends lack of swimming. Gonna try to go to the growers market at propect park / grand army plaza up near home. Saturday night there is an engagement party for 2 ace friends of alicia. so the shout out louds are playing at the mercury lounge at the end of the weekend. anybody heard of these swedish lads? saw them on new york noise and thought i'd give them a punt... watdoya-reckon?

For all interested Gaslight Radio's Z-Nation is on high rotation of late.