Cape May

As summer ends the American excitement of going to the beach reduces resulting in lesser crowds, which made it a perfect excuse to visit Cape May, a popular destination in New Jersey for a day/weekend trip. Cape May is famous for its historic Victorian style architecture, the city claimed to be America's first seaside resort. The city sits at the southern tip of New Jersey and is tiny enough to walk around on foot. It was an impromptu plan so I looked up briefly what to do when we get there. We found parking easier than expected and started walking towards Washington Street Mall. Every street was adorned by Victorian style houses, with bright colors, steep roofs, bay windows, the classic porch, small gardens and ornamental wood carvings. Most of the houses served as Bed and Bath, they have attracted people from the East Coast - New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The weather was perfect while the winds made it cooler. 

The Washington Street Mall is an open mall with multiple stores spread across two blocks with stores selling antiques, jewelry, taffy, clothes and soaps. After a quick look at the Mall we headed to West Cape May to grab a bite at a small start up restaurant that had a makeshift kitchen plus dinning area, food was all organic and locally grown. We headed back to the Mall and dove into a shopping spree. We headed to the promenade to find the house made famous on the internet. The promenade has many inlets to the beach, as the beach and the concrete walk way gets divided by a line of tall bushes. After admiring the houses we continued towards the light house. We came across a bird watching trail and while we had an hour to spare before the sunset we took a stroll on the beautiful tree covered pathways that was the bird watch trail, unaware that Cape May is special for migratory birds during Fall. We spotted many people with binoculars and professional cameras patiently waiting to capture that one photo of these birds. We enjoyed the sunset behind the light house, with the promise of climbing the 199 steps of the light house the next time we are here.