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<\/a><\/p>\nWe stayed in Highlands in a nice old home with a view of Sandy Hook, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and the Freedom Tower. It had been two years since we had been in this neck of the woods.<\/p>\n
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TWIN LIGHTS<\/h3>\n
A must on our annual trek to family-land – this historic site figured heavily in our childhood rituals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While we were out of town, they built the Freedom Tower which blatantly sticks up out of Manhattan and is easily visible from the Twin Lights.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Things have changes since we lived in West Long Branch. The legendary Freddie’s Pizzeria is no longer owned and operated by Italians, the pizza wielding waiter no longer hangs off the front of the building and according to Brother\/Father Joe, who ate there in January has lost it’s original flavor.<\/p>\n There is still sand on the Ocean Boulevard side of the sea wall – evidence of the destruction wrought by hurricane Sandy in October, 2012<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 Another annual ritual is dinner at Frank and Shawn’s home where they prepare a delicious dinner and we enjoy the view from the back deck.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n James brought dessert, a scrumptious fruit and custard tart. As per usual, we helped ourselves to much good food and delved into family reminiscing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Before driving to Pennsylvania, we went to Sandy Hook for a picnic. Earlier that day, Joe went for a bike ride and returned with part of a horseshoe crab.<\/p>\n ><\/p>\n Bopping around Camille’s childhood stomping grounds on May 19 and 20 with Father-brother Joe <\/p>\n <\/p>\n GRAND LADY BY THE SEA B&B <\/p>\n \n We stayed in Highlands in a nice old home with a view of Sandy Hook, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and the Freedom Tower. It had been two years since we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7092,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/7092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\nFREEDOM TOWER<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nFRANK’S SLICE OF HEAVEN<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nJOLLY GOOD FELLOWS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nSANDY HOOK<\/h3>\n
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[Troutsfarm]<\/a> * [May, 2014]<\/a> * [Cabin John and DC]<\/a> * [Rumson and Sandy Hook]<\/a> * [Hiking on North Mountain]<\/a> * [Touring Dickinson Farm]<\/a> * [Family Reunion]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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