The Shepherd and I decided to take a random road trip today. After a few minutes of research courtesy of roadsideamerica.com we decided to visit a dinosaur statue, a huge champagne bottle as well as a freak show museum.
We drove up Route 9 in hopes of finding all 3 landmarks. Driving wasn’t too bad, we really needed something to eat, so that was the first mission of the day. After driving by numerous diners and what looked like other fine eateries we randomly pulled into Sweet Jenny’s Restaurant, Ice Cream Parlour and miniature golf.
It was like a log cabin inside, with lots of Elvis photos about the place. I ordered a Porky Pig and was glad I did. One of the finer sandwiches I’ve ever had. If you’re ever in the neighborhood I recommend you stop in and get one.
A few minutes later we then drove by the dinosaur statue. We didn’t stop and take any photos. It was a terrible let down. Nothing impressive about it at all, but at least we were able to locate it and got a good sandwich as a result. A few minutes down the road was the giant champagne bottle, which there’s a couple of across NJ.
We then departed towards Seaside Heights in hopes of finding some freak show museums. We were able to navigate to the boardwalk all right, but it was really, really cold outside and decided to abort the mission. It was a very creepy atmosphere on the boardwalk, and I got heckled by a carnie so it’s best we got out of there while we still could. Cops were everywhere, never seen so many in such a small empty area.
While the landmarks were somewhat of a letdown, the food was exceptional and this was another fine random adventure.