This blog is starting totally in medias res. It will likely feature many flashbacks like this.
For the moment, long story short, I've recently moved to NY for school (MFA @ SVA - more on that soonish...) and my boyfriend recently came to visit me. And we went to Montauk. We stayed at Sunrise Guesthouse which is every bit as good as all these people say. About a 20 minute walk from town, it has incredibly comfortable, sort-of-quirky suites from which you can hear the surf all night. I haven't slept so well for ages.
I have two words here: Off. Season. We had the entire beach to ourselves for pretty much the entire weekend, and there was miles of it (both beach and weekend.) There were also: little windblown pine trees and strange, lovely bird calls and wild brown rabbits in the brush. And the STARS. I don't know if I'd want to be there in the summer, as in, there were so many motels in the village I'm sure the entire place would be crawling with hyperactive kids and packs of teenagers, etc. (um, when did I become such a curmudgeon?) Anyway. Montauk in off season is HIGHLY recommended. And yes, I did swim in sea. For about 10 minutes. Once.
From the train.
They mean between the real world and salty, windswept heaven...
I like this picture because it proves we were all right as little kids - the sun DOES have pointy rays.
View from the suite.
I know, I know, BUT... really.
It was Halloween - grown up trick or treating? Except Laduree doesn't work quite like that...
No seaside resort town is complete without mini-golf
'Second House'... we assume they mean built in Montauk...
Life guard towers need vacations too.
Sunrise Guest House
Sound track: (perhaps a little too) obviously Patti Page, Old Cape Cod
