In a message dated 6/4/2002 6:53:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Nope, wouldn't expect you to live in the Hamptons...but you should go out to > dinner there sometime and tell us what a good time you had. John, Actually, the last Saturday I was at FBF in May I had a date to meet a writer in Easthampton at a book signing (something about Chocolate for the Soul?), but I remained happily camping instead. Driving, and parking, in the Hamptons on the weekends is a pain. Early when we moved out to the unHamptons we made a few forays into the Hamptons -- something us lesser Western mortals are discouraged from doing -- particularly that we do not slum up the beaches. One evening in Westhampton, we had gone to visit a nightclub (place was boring and we left within a half hour -- the world is full of bored people looking for something fun to do, and I think that sums up the Hamptons) I had this vision that we would park the car on the main drag on Saturday nights and have our son sit on the hood while Kathy & I read books. The idea being that we could use him as his own bait to attract a wealthy girlfriend. That great vision lasted all of five minutes. We prefer true love to money. He did work two summers attending a parking lot at a beach club, arranged by his not wealthy x-girlfriend (though she may have been something of a nut case if that helps)... then he ended fixing computers for the owner's & their friends. He also met an acquaintance of Camus there who would come around the parking lot to talk. Unfortunate, I suppose, that anything my son learned about Camus did not stick in my head, particulary when presented with mother-loving quotes at especial dinner parties hosted by friends. Memorial Day weekend I was sort of supposed to go out to the Hamptons to a party with my son and his present smart-girlfriend at a friend of a friend's house, a guy whose parents died and left him with acreage and a mansion, an ocean worthy sailboat, and enough money that he does not have to do anything but party. I was game for the adventure, expecting decadence ala Fitzgerald, but the phone connections never came off and it sounded like potential members of the party spent the weekend lost in teh ozone driving around LI. We have neighbors, rough-neck motorcycle people who had a paying gig to dress up in their biker garb and attend a party in the Hamptons as local color. That was a party I would have liked to go to. When I go out to the Montauk Lighthouse, which I am anticipating doing a bit more often in future, I get to cross the Hamptons. I'll make sure, as per your request, to find an adventure to report on. One thing REALLY cool about the Hamptons, though, is the windmills. We have windmills and tidal mills along the south shore. Another thing cool is the layers of history. The NY SHPO had a map, as I remember seeing somewhere, that located minute areas of archeological significance from Riverhead to the East. The area was fully occupied by Native Americans prior to the European invasion. ][<en