For my Cape Cod friends

 

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Memorial Day Weekend has come and gone, so summer on Cape Cod is in full bloom.

That means that instead of the locals  being able to get a number of things done in a day, because of the heavy traffic doing a few errands now takes a number of days if they even attempt to deal with the conga line of cars on Route 28, or the suddenly stopping cars on Rout 6A.

Left turns have become memories for the next three months, and something the locals dream of as possible again in the fall.

Friendly conversations with local merchants have to be clipped into abbreviated grunts and nods as no one has time for shooting the breeze until sometime in mid-October.

Long walks on the beach are on hiatus, and dogs won’t see the surf again until the season is over.

Bears hibernate in the winter. The Cape Cod locals do it in the summer.

But it is the summer season and people adapt.

I wish my friends well as my being on the Cape is now a matter of choice while theirs isn’t, and I remember which weekends only those ending or beginning their time there for a vacation will be on the roads, and the turtles win the races.

 

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