Howdy Transients, welcome to the forty-fourth traversal of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, we are now at the point where the tangent meets the circle.

I don’t know what’s worse…knowing that you don’t have a summer vacation and that it’s all going to be work even through the summer OR being reminded every year that you have a whole life, a whole spectrum of experience that must CEASE in September and pushed to the bottom of the well until late-June.

I guess it’s a matter of personal actualization.  There’s no reason why I can’t do all the healthy, spiritually invigorating “summer” habits the rest of the year round.  It’s just a lot HARDER.  Look, I don’t mind working for a living.  I just don’t understand why it has to be so consuming.  I don’t mean in a personal investment sense, I mean in the sheer number of hours we must spend thinking about nothing else–putting our entire lives on hold.

Anyway, here are some places I may frequent this summer because they’re close to where I familiar, and relatively cheap.  I tried to keep the list short because it quickly started to get out of control.  Perhaps other places will show up in another HACK.

For those of you that live in the Tri-State area, I recommend taking jaunts to check out these joints.  If you live too far away, keep these places in mind if you’re ever in the area… READ MORE »