To begin this travel blog, I would like to say "Home is where the heart is," and Hampton, NH has my heart. It has always been the place where I have started, and the place to where I always return. Hampton, NH is a beach town located on the meager 18 mile coastline of New Hampshire. This past summer I was abroad, and I told an American that I lived on the beach in New Hampshire, and they didn't believe me. They said "There are no beaches in New Hampshire." I had to get out a map and point to the little strip of land to prove my well-educated friends wrong.
Growing up in Hampton was a blessing as I went to the beach everyday. What I mean by that is that every single day of my being, I spent watching or swimming in the waves of the Atlantic. I learned how to swim, surf, and flirt with the locals, lifeguards and tourists. my 21 year old friends and I love to buy rafts and use them in the ocean especially after Hurricanes. I fell in love by the ocean, fell out of love a mile away, and two miles away from where I experienced sex on the beach - in beverage form that is!
The ocean has always acted as my escape. It can be harsh; it can be beautiful. I always run to the ocean, and it never rejects me even in my ugliest sweat pants. Whether I be drunk with my friends on the sand in the summer; or be freezing with the heat blasting with a coffee in my hand, sitting in my car in winter. The ocean calms my soul, and gives me the power to carry on.
The beauteous part about Hampton is that you can spend the day on "Hampton Beach" eating fried dough, playing volleyball, going on the water slides, and ending the day by going to a concert at the Hampton Casino. There's such a high pulse on the "Strip"-which is where the pimped out cars with the under glow showoff in the summer time. There are many great seafood restaurants that serve endless amount of New England Clam Chowder- a must have for all you tourists.
The other thing that makes Hampton separate from other towns is that it has a tourist-ty section, but it also has private beaches for the locals. The private beachs are for the people who want to see people they see around town in the winter time, and hope to not be bothered by obnoxious tourists. I enjoy parcialling my time between both the rowdy touristy section and the calm, quiet townie section so I get the best of both worlds. The local beaches include North Beach and Plaice Cove. Yes, "P-L-A-I-C-E," not "Place." However, if you're a tourist- please stay away from them!
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