<title>Shore Guide - Philly.com</title> http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide RSS Feed for P-com Travel Shore Guide en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:09:45 GMT Atlantic City is what it has always been: Naughty http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090515_Atlantic_City_is_what_it_has_always_been__Naughty.html FROM THE MOMENT Resorts International (now Resorts Atlantic City) opened its doors 31 years ago, there has been opposition to legal gambling's presence in Atlantic City. The Oyster House is back and serving mollusks on a half shell http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090710_Oyster_House_is_back_with_mollusks_on_the_half_shellOyster_House_Three_Forks_The_Oyster_House_is_back_and_serving_heroes_on_a_half_shell.html I ENTERED the Oyster House with trepidation. It has been more than a year since its closing and return to its original owners. Bunnies hop to shore to recall their Playboy tails http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20091005_Bunnies_hop_to_shoreto_recall_their_Playboy_tails.html AVALON, N.J - A look of horror and dismay flashed in Donna Lahron's eyes as the flight attendant from Steubenville, Ohio, watched her Playboy Bunny ears land gently in the water below the expansive deck of the multimillion-dollar house. Thanks, shoobies http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090903_Thanks__shoobies.html This has been a long summer. In fact, they don't come any longer than this one. Memorial Day was the earliest it could be, falling on the last Monday in May, which this year's calendar put on May 25. Then Labor Day falls on its most procrastinating, first-Monday-in-September day possible: Sept. 7. Summer still simmers http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090828_Summer_still_simmers.html The blazing heat came late this year, and the Labor Day holiday will too, but there are still two more weekends of summer at the Jersey Shore to enjoy. Pool of rock http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090820_Pool_of_rock.html NORTH WILDWOOD - His audience stretches out in front of him: six people at the bar. A dozen or two in the pool. Nine people lined up across the street at the hot-dog cart. A few folks unloading their cars in the parking lot. A handful out on the balconies, hanging towels. Seaside Heights bans smoking on the beach http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090811_Seaside_Heights_bans_smoking_on_the_beach.html SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - You can imbibe until nearly dawn in the boardwalk bars and nightclubs of this Jersey Shore town. Partying is so ubiquitous that the place has been the backdrop for everything from MTV's True Life to the 2006 slacker film Beer League. See the sights on the way to the beach http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090710_See_the_sights_on_the_way_to_the_beach.html The amble down to the Delaware beaches and Ocean City, Md., can take the better part of three hours, the roads themselves having little distinctiveness, so it is often a good idea to break up the journey along the way. Pine Barrens offer a pleasant summer trip http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090710_Pine_Barrens_offer_a_pleasant_summer_trip.html While it may not quite compare with the California Coast Highway drive or motoring through Yellowstone National Park in the fall, the drive through Central New Jersey takes Shore-goers through one of the magnificent natural wonders of the United States, the Pine Barrens. New in town? A handy shore-to-shore conversion guide http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/shoreguide/20090710_New_in_town__A_handy_shore-to-shore_conversion_guide.html NOTHING'S exactly the same from one beach town to the next, but a lot isn't foreign either, even in places where going &quot;downashore&quot; is going &quot;downy shore&quot; (Ocean City, Md.) or &quot;to the beach&quot; (the entire, misguided state of Delaware).