Ed and Tony Rehoboth Style

16. August 2008 by admin.

Plans change.  We slept until 4am and didn’t get on the turnpike until 6am Saturday morning. 

It was our desire to leave a lot earlier, however we had packing to do, dogs to take to our friend Bill’s house and bird and large cage to our Aunt Donna’s place.

Our road trip started fine, but after 2.5 hours on the road, some horrible fried food and a road closure, things took a long and unwelcome turn.  I was driving down Route 70E, making excellent time when I saw a sign saying 70E closed at exit 5!  OK, no big deal.  I have GPS. No problem.  Needless to say, we drove miles and miles out of our way.

Ever visit Virginia and  southern West Virgina by car, in traffic with other confused folks not knowing where the %^#@ you are going?  I must admit, Berkeley Springs looked to be a wonderful little town.  Beautiful.  I think I drove by one of my customers locations that distribute the newspaper.  We are everywhere…us and the newspaper this particular day.

No detour signs, just a navigation system and no real hurray, we proceeded ahead.  We drove through many West Virginia and Virginia towns until arriving in Washington DC.  Yes, DC where we encounter very little traffic and drivebys of the monuments.    Finally, we enter a large highway heading towards the Bay Bridge.  We didn’t encounter heavy traffic until the other side of the bridge.  This was the traffic we were hoping to miss.  Miles and miles of highway, littered with packed SUVs with kids and supplies for week on the east coast’s Ocean City or Rehoboth Beach.  Lots of Pa plates, Steeler logos and even a few cars packed with gay men.

The guys from the Lighthouse Inn www.lighthouseinn.net called to see where we were.  We planned to arrive in RB between 8am-10am.  It was now 2pm!  We stopped at Super Fresh grocery store on Route before heading to RB.  We needed coffee and snacks for the cottage.  We finally arrived in beautiful and sunny RB at 4pm.

We unpacked and after chatting with Matt and Jerry.  At 6pm, we walked to the front area of the inn for wine, cheese and a chance to meet some of the other visitors.  We met some nice guys from NJ, DC, Philly and one ex-Shadysider.  At 8pm, we headed to Nicola’s for our first RB meal.  No matter what time we pull into town, Nicola’s is always our first stop after checking in. 

After dinner, headed back to get the kids ready for bed.  Matt and Jerry, being the great friends and incredible innkeepers they are, asked if we wanted to go out.   They offered to keep an eye on the kids for us.  Their living area connects kitchen to our cottage by a door.  We didn’t expect any problems since our boys are teenagers now.

We headed to place called Aqua.  The place was a short walk away from our Delaware Avenue location.  Most of the employees are lifeguards, shirtless and very cute.  Our visit there lasted an hour. We headed to the Blue Moon.  The Blue Moon is RB’s most famous gay bar.  The owners and good friends, Randy and Tim bought the bar and restaurant in April and made some notable changes.  Pamela Stanley performs there Sunday-Thursday and the restaurant is first class.  The bar was packed with a lot of guys from the 20-40ish age group. We spent most of the time catching up with Randy and Tim.  We met them about 17 years ago and have been friends since.  Thanks for the VIP treatment guys!

We stumbled home late and very pleased with our first night in RB!  Finally, sleep after being up for almost 24 hours.

More on our vacation to come…

Tony

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