Vacation

[Joan]

That's Manahawkin Chuck, Janeen's in-laws live there, and from what I understand, the price of homes have sky-rocketed there!! My ex-inlaws had a house in Forked River right on the lagoon - I can't imagine what it would be worth today!!

In my teen years, the "in" place to go was Jenkinson's Beach in Pt. Pleasant. There was a little bar on the boardwalk who would serve anybody, so we had a lot of "wasted weekends".

Abby the Chowderfest is definitely this weekend. You are a lot younger than I, so I don't remember the bar you are talking about. But I do remember playing miniature golf down there!

As for OCA, the only queer spots I know of in Jersey are Ocean Grove and Belmar! And as a Greek you should talk???

[Abbey Marie]

Here's a page of real estate listings for LBI:

http://www.vandyklbi.com/search.html...0&max=99999999

I think this is the most expensive home on it, but it's hard to be sure since the site won't let me look any more without registering. I did see several in the 6 and 7 mill range, and another for around 10 mill.

List Price: $ 14,995,000

[Guernicaa]

I go to Tampa Bay for my vacations.
St.Pete to be more exact.

[Abbey Marie]

I go to Tampa Bay for my vacations.
St.Pete to be more exact.

I've never been to St. Petersburg. Tell us about it?

[Guernicaa]

I've never been to St. Petersburg. Tell us about it?

It's really nice there. Only about 15 minutes from Tampa. I still go to Tampa a lot but I spend most of my time in St.Petersburg because thats where all my family lives. Some live in Clearwater which is right next to St.Pete on that strip of land that curves off the side of Tampa:
http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques...ges/tampa.jpeg


The beaches are so great there, because they usually aren't over crowded.

This is St.Pete:
http://www.awesomeflorida.com/images/st_pete1_big.jpg

This is St.Pete beach:
http://goflorida.about.com/library/g.../stpetebch.jpg

You see a lot of this because of all the weird little strips of land:
http://www.tbrpc.org/waterfront/images/Stpier.jpg

Theres a lot of things to do in Tampa Bay.
The Football games, the baseball games (even though they suck)...Nobody goes to the baseball games (the stadium is litteraly about a 1/3 full)...so what we do is buy the cheapest tickets (10$) and go to games when they play the Yankees and then just sit in open seats about 6 rows away.

Theres malls all over the place. Really big malls.

This is the Sunshine Skyway bridge:
http://www.hermansgallery.com/Backdr..._for_L-737.htm

Theres this place called Baywalk right near the beach where they have some good bands play on Friday nights and really good (pretty expensive, but good) places to eat:
http://www.hermansgallery.com/Backdr..._for_C-105.htm
I go there with my cousins a lot.


Theres just a lot of stuff to do there.
I don't think its that expensive to vacation there either. Not compared to West Palm Beach or hot spots in Miami.

[JohnDoe]

It's really nice there. Only about 15 minutes from Tampa. I still go to Tampa a lot but I spend most of my time in St.Petersburg because thats where all my family lives. Some live in Clearwater which is right next to St.Pete on that strip of land that curves off the side of Tampa:
http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques...ges/tampa.jpeg


The beaches are so great there, because they usually aren't over crowded.

This is St.Pete:
http://www.awesomeflorida.com/images/st_pete1_big.jpg

This is St.Pete beach:
http://goflorida.about.com/library/g.../stpetebch.jpg

You see a lot of this because of all the weird little strips of land:
http://www.tbrpc.org/waterfront/images/Stpier.jpg

Theres a lot of things to do in Tampa Bay.
The Football games, the baseball games (even though they suck)...Nobody goes to the baseball games (the stadium is litteraly about a 1/3 full)...so what we do is buy the cheapest tickets (10$) and go to games when they play the Yankees and then just sit in open seats about 6 rows away.

Theres malls all over the place. Really big malls.

This is the Sunshine Skyway bridge:
http://www.hermansgallery.com/Backdr..._for_L-737.htm

Theres this place called Baywalk right near the beach where they have some good bands play on Friday nights and really good (pretty expensive, but good) places to eat:
http://www.hermansgallery.com/Backdr..._for_C-105.htm
I go there with my cousins a lot.


Theres just a lot of stuff to do there.
I don't think its that expensive to vacation there either. Not compared to West Palm Beach or hot spots in Miami.

i lived there for 10 years in various spots, and my husband lived there is whole life until we moved up to newengland about 10 years ago, obama!

we know st pete quite well.... we lived in treasure island, fla on a canal that went out to the Gulf.... saw dophins every day swimming in the canal, the sunsets are second to none, Gators to the north and Woody's to the south... as sitting on the dock/deck, dive bars... ..... man, that was the life! dolphin, red snapper, yellowtail, the shrimp and fresh oysters.....all avail in the region....yummmmm....i am getting hungry!!!

the family we have in the tampa bay region live in Tampa, but my hubby and I lived in st.pete near tyrone square mall for 5 years when i was a buyer for Dillard's Dept stores, which had their corporate headquarters above the store there.... then we moved to treasure island, in a condo on the intracoastal, for a year, before we moved to the boston region, up here....but now in maine!

small world!!

jd