Bruce wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:13:35 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
> > Gary wrote:
> >
> >> cshenk wrote:
> >> > Nope, and I don't think our top days are THAT crowded-bad but
> yeah, >> > we aren't a safe place for fires on the beach in the
> resort area. >>
> >> Your part of Virginia Beach is a whole different world from the
> >> oceanfront. On a big holiday weekend, you can't even drive down
> here >> to spend a day at the beach. Police set up roadblocks
> everywhere >> about a mile from the oceanfront.
> >>
> >> If you don't show proof of living within that mile or have proof of
> >> staying in a motel, they turn you around to go park in a remote lot
> >> and take a bus to and from the oceanfront.
> >>
> >> I live within that area but I still don't drive there when it's
> busy. >> That's where my bike comes in handy.
> >
> > Gary love you but it's clear you know only that tiny bit of Virginia
> > Beach. You are 'bitching' about a less than 3 mile square radius of
> > it and best I can tell, almost never leave it.
>
> Gary's an armchair traveller. It's cheaper than real travel.

He doesn't travel VB much for sure and may be looking at 'state parks
that allow fires in the beach' or something? Either way, he's not an
idiot, just doesn't travel much outside his area.

Here's a fun one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knotts...North_Carolina

Part of it is Virginia Beach but yo have to cross to NC to get there by
land. Lovely place. Went there with some friends in 2015 I think it
was, to plant some apple trees along a friend's horse farm along with
some others from more central Virgnia Beach. Yes, you can have a fire
on the beach there too.