Cape May, New Jersey

We arrived in Cape May on Tuesday, April 30th, and will be here until May 7th.  If you look at a map, and have been reading my blog, you will see that we took the looooooooooooong way to get here.  We were actually just a few miles across the water when we were in Delaware and there is a ferry we could have taken.  We decided against it as we wanted to stop in the Washington, D.C. area and in Amish Country, Pennsylvania, so here we are.  That also allowed us to put two more map stickers on our RV map, which is very important!

We picked this area as neither of us had been here and wanted to see the Jersey shore and Atlantic City.  The beaches here are just beautiful so I can see why everyone comes here in the summer.  The big attraction here is Wildwoods which is right on the ocean and has amusement parks and a huge boardwalk with many arcades, restaurants and shops.  It is not tourist season yet and the weather is still a little cold so the place looked like a ghost town.  It is amazing to see all the homes, cottages and hotels.  The boardwalk was very impressive and I can see where families would have a great time.

A portion of the boardwalk in Wildwoods

Cape May lighthouse

Beach at Cape May

We took a drive up to Atlantic City and stopped at a town just before Atlantic City called Margate.  We had been told by a friend who is from the area to check out the building shaped like an elephant, so we did.

The things you see on the road

Neither of us had been to Atlantic City and wanted to go see the famed boardwalk.  As we get the New York TV stations on our DirecTV we had heard that much of the boardwalk had been damaged by superstorm Sandy last year, but that was not the case.  There was a lot of construction activity in the town and on one of the hotels lining the boardwalk but other than that the boardwalk and all the shops and restaurants were fine.

Trump’s Casino

A view down the beach.  They have restored the dunes and planted shrubs to help keep the sand in place.

A portion of the boardwalk. You see the cart in the middle of the picture, that is the boardwalk taxi.  You get pushed by someone, so you go walking speed!!  They do not allow bikes on the boardwalk during most of the day so this is what enterprising individuals have come up with. Did I mention you sit and move at WALKING SPEED!  I did not bother to ask how much they charge as I probably would not have been able to contain my laughter.

Weather has been cool and downright cold on some days.  In Atlantic City it was pleasant, but in Wildwoods we were bundled up in heavy coats.  Where is Spring?

Headed to Florida, New York next week, which is about 50 miles outside New York City.