mile 170 East Hampton

I arrived in East Hampton at around 8:30pm on Monday night. The last 5 miles were very tough on me. I had to stop 3 times to recover my breath and rub down my legs to get the blood circulation going. Once in East Hampton, I got a room in the Hampton Inn, and proceeded to get dinner. I walked over to the TownLine BBQ and ordered an entire rack of Ribs. I ate outside that evening. The ribs were awesome! But the real show-stealer was the scenery. Someone had planted a large field of oats right behind the restaurant. Being so close to the sea, there was the distant sound of waves, and a cool breeze that smelled refreshingly of sea spray. As the breeze swept pass the oat fields, the plants rippled and waved almost like the waves of the ocean. The diffuse, pink glow of twilight, the salty breeze, and the grain field "ocean" made everything seem surreal and magical. I felt as if I was no longer in this reality any more, but some kind of parallel universe found in Monet paintings.