High Tide

It is December 23rd – 0730 hours.  I’ll be riding along with Officer Tony today at 0800 hours (that’s police talk for 8 a.m.) to get a glimpse of what a day in the life of a police officer in Cape May is like.  Meanwhile, I have about 12,000 presents piled up in the closet… Read more »

You know what I’m doing this month? I’m going to shadow a tour guide.   Two reasons I’m going to do that – one, because it’s Christmas time and I want to do something cheery. Two, Lord knows Cape May is a town that knows how to guide a tour properly and no one does… Read more »

I know that our regular readers will remember our story in March about the change in ownership at the Sandpiper Beach Inn at the corner of Beach and Grant streets. So many of you wrote in to inquire about the status of their favorite vacation inn and so many of you still write us –… Read more »

Have you ever thought about becoming an innkeeper? I have. I rejected the impulse for three reasons. An innkeeper must be friendly, which I’m not. An innkeeper must like having strangers about the house, which I don’t. And most important of all, the life of the innkeeper is more often than not a 24-7 proposition,… Read more »