"The Amusement Park Rises Bold and Stark"

I spent a fair amount of my formative years on the boardwalks of New Jersey, and at times living out the lines from Springsteen ballads. Racing the circuit in Asbury Park in my 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner, "hiding on the backstreets" etc. I thought it was cool at the time, OK, well...I still think it's cool. Yes, I am a fan of Springsteen, but I am also a fan of the turnaround that this stretch of boardwalk is making. It's been through many incarnations, and now seems to be in another revitalization stage. So, once again... Greetings from Asbury Park NJ - Don't "waste your summer prayin' in vain" get down to the beach and check out the boardwalk.

Read Travel Photograph Write

If you can't think of what to do, like, read a book, take a trip, write in your blog, or break out the ol' camera phone and snap a couple of low res pics, I suggest you combine them all. Read a book, then travel to the authors house with camera in hand, then email a friend about it. After all, reading and traveling open our minds, photos help us remember our experiences and that our minds should remain open, and writing it down passes that knowledge onto others. Above are images of Mark Twain's and Harriet Beecher Stowe's houses, both of which you can tour. Just make sure you travel to a historic home and not one that the author is currently living in, because getting arrested for stalking is probably something you don't want to write about or have pictures of in your photo album.