Once I was driving my friends to New York City to go see an Art Gallery Exhibit. It was Laser Holographs and at that time they were very new and rare.

We were all in my Dodge Omni (Ken, Ken the son, Mark and I) when the Police pulled over a group of cars that were speeding on #95... We were all going with the flow and traveling at 75-80 MPH... Obviously the correct speed and obviously illegal. I got a ticket and years later I learned that the State of Merryland had RECIPROCITY with the State of New Jersey. When I went to the MVA to pay my registration I was refused service unless I paid the bill and fines in New Jersey. I parked at the Newark Airport and we took a bus to Manhattan. We saw a Laser Lightshow at the Planetarium. The ART Gallery was Very Special (Museum of Holography) because the pictures were printed on clear plastic and had a rainbow colored portrait of a Woman blowing a kiss. as I walked left and right she reversed time and moved her hand to her lips and Blew the Kiss... Magic...

If all you know about New Jersey is the freeway #95 you miss a lot of The Garden State. The western part is farms and woods. I visited some kids who had built a cabin in the woods so they would have a place to smoke weed. It had logs for walls and a parachute for a roof. It was summer so the parachute was missing. The Jersey Shore has a couple of wonderful places... First I must say that Atlantic City SUCKS. I went there and won money and then was worried about walking to the car at night and getting mugged... I made sure to look sad when teenagers were checking us out... If I had a Happy Step, they might have realized I was a winner... We did hear Glenn Campbell Play Guitar and Sing. He played the guitar behind his head... and played the notes perfectly... Showmanship... 

The FERRY BOAT From Cape May to Delaware is EPIC. All along the Seashore are quaint communities of wooden buildings... and there are hundreds of places to go wading in the ocean. MANY have a Toll you have to Pay. ODD... All the way from Atlantic City to Ocean City Maryland there are lovely towns... People rent a house for a week and have fun. or just for the weekend... When I was working in Washington DC my co workers would often shout O.C. BOUND! on Friday Afternoon... We went with my cousins from Baltimore (Towsend) and everyone bought watermelon on the drive to Ocean City... There is a Boardwalk with rides, shops and Salt Water Taffy! Sadly, if you leave on Friday there is a MAJOR Traffic Jam at the Bridge over the Chesapeake Bay at Annapolis.  

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