We love freebies - In the space of one day, we managed to get a third and free slice of pizza courtesy of Man vs Food favourite L&B Spumoni Gardens, free tickets to a show - and finally, a free car for the day from Enterprise, having clocked up sufficient loyalty points over the past five months.
With nothing but our flip-flops, some sunscreen, Dolores our dashboard hula girl and the GPS, we were once again on the road, battling through the Brooklyn traffic and heading east out of the City. Our plan, get from one end of Long Island to the other. Cruising through the oh-so-affluent Hamptons and the pretty seaside towns that stretch along the South Shore, it was like old times again - the iPod laying down a summery soundtrack, the sun beaming through the trees, and the winding road leading us off into the distance. Eventually, the slab of land that is Long Island began to narrow. The ocean slowly crept in from the left and the right until we were driving along nothing but a slither of sand edged with lobster restaurants and beach-side mansions. When these ran out, the land spread out again in thick forests and scrub, rising steeply to form the easterly most tip of New York and the Montauk State Park where the famous Montauk Point Light overlooks the vast Atlantic Ocean from its rocky perch.
Seaguls swooped over our heads as we trod the sand of the deserted beach, the red and white striped lighthouse peeking through the grassy dunes at us. With nothing to be heard but the rustling of the long grasses and the gentle pulse of the sea, it felt as it we were a thousand miles from New York City.
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